David Steindl-Rast Quotes

Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.

David Steindl-Rast

• Sleep
• Missing
• Appreciate
• Deprived
• Gratefulness

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• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Trying
  • War

• The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Cultures
  • Argentina

• The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Country
  • City
  • Cool

• I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Imagination

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

  

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession

  

  Alfred Stieglitz
  • Truth
  • American
  • Passion

• Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Good

• I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Challenge

• I know that on LAPD they have used psychics. They used it on the Hillside strangler case. I'm not sure on the Richard Ramirez case. I can't say one thing or another about it. I've read about it. I really don't have a lot to say about if it works or if it doesn't.

  

  Mark Fuhrman

• I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Cool
  • Training

• People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Hope
  • Rumors

• I was a street performer for two years.

  

  Bernie Mac

• I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Joy

• A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue lives matter,' all lives matter. It's not right what is going on in this world on both sides.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Black
  • Blue

• There's something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Studio
  • Responsibilities
  • Gates

• Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.

  

  Aviva Chomsky
  • Immigration
  • Laws
  • Rights

• It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Pain

• Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.

  

  David Steindl-Rast
  • Sleep
  • Missing
  • Appreciate