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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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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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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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,
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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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As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
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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 think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.
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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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That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.
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Sex appeal is not on purpose.
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By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
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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.
