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.Kay Arthur
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Gail Porter -
You should seek approval from yourself.
Ichiro Suzuki -
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Eckhart Tolle -
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
Larry David
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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.
Salman Rushdie -
Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
Mallory Ortberg -
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.
Kate Chopin -
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.
Oral Roberts -
My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
Diana Ross -
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
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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.
C. Wagner -
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.
Barack Obama -
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.
Kami Garcia -
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.
Dahlia Lithwick -
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.
Bhagat Singh -
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
Bill Gothard
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My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.
Zachary Quinto -
I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.
Paul Coffey -
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.
Aristotle -
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.
Kay Arthur