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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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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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Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.
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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
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The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
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I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.
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Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.
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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.
