Kay Arthur Quotes
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.
Quotes to Explore
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
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She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.
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Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
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Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.
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The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.
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I need to talk to Lena" There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go.
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Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
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I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.
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The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
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Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.
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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.
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When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.
