Ambrose of Optina Quotes
“We must begin with thanksgiving for everything. The beginning of joy is to be content with your situation.”
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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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.
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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.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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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.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
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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.
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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
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If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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Since you types wouldn't be happy unless you're unhappy, I wouldn't dare try to take your joy away by solving your problems.
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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
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“We must begin with thanksgiving for everything. The beginning of joy is to be content with your situation.”
