Dan Miller Quotes
Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
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Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.
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I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
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Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
