Jimmy Carter Quotes
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
Quotes to Explore
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.
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All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
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I don’t really care that much about if I want to be more successful or less successful in art, because I never think life and art should be separate. What’s life if you don’t have conversation and joy and anger?
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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I've always been a bit of a daredevil, even as a little girl with a pretty high pain tolerance and things like that.
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If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.
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It depends on what your goals are, your career goals, and what the organization values. Salaries do increase with levels of education. ... There's certainly value in terms of networking with other people in your programs.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
