Ambrose of Optina Quotes
“We must begin with thanksgiving for everything. The beginning of joy is to be content with your situation.”
Ambrose of Optina
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
Walter Kirn
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
Dane Cook
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
Zoe Saldana
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Garry Trudeau
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
Tanith Lee
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1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.
Larry Niven
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You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2
Whitney Houston
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
Aaron Neville
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Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.
Marvin Sapp
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I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.
Diora Baird
