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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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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.
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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.
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We are one another's strength.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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Some say once gone you're gone foreverAnd some say you're going to come back.Some say you rest in the arms of the SaviourIf in sinful ways you lack.Some say that they're coming back in a garden,Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas.I think I'll just let the mystery be.
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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.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
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My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
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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.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.
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As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.
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Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.
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The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
