David Steindl-Rast Quotes

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

David Steindl-Rast

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• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Religion
  • Talk

• Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • New York
  • Cocktail

• I want to be open about my condition to show others that they are not alone in dealing with this form of chronic hives. My advice for people with CIU is to talk to their doctor about their condition.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Alone
  • Advice

• There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Smoking

• We are one another's strength.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Strength
  • To Be

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Society

• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People
  • Hand
  • Moral

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.

  

  Ben Harney
  • People
  • Help

• We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Past

• My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Business

• Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • World

• When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Up

• I'm interested in directing, but it's a real headache. Directing can be a real pain in the ass, because you not only have to worry about yourself, but all these other people coming to you with their problems. I like just worrying about myself.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Yourself

• You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.

  

  Elias Canetti

• Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

  

  John Sununu
  • Discipline

• I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Women
  • Why
  • Job

• Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.

  

  Allen Klein
  • People
  • Live
  • Volunteer

• The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

  

  David Steindl-Rast
  • Gratitude
  • Makes
  • Gratefulness