Richard Rohr Quotes
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
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Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
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The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
