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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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
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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 this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
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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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They caught it early and the prognosis is good.
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Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that's inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade, I've studied people with uncanny abilities - card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here's the thing: These weren't innate skills - they were acquired.
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Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.
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The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
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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.
