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resignations
«I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And from my solitude I think, work, and live - and I believe that I write and speak with almost infinite composure and resignation. In my solitude I consta»
«Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.»
«Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.»
Author: Dr. Paul Tournier
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acceptance, accepting, complexes, contrary, handicapped, handicapping, handicaps, heredity, injustices, on the contrary, psychological, resignation, resignations, running away
«You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.»
Author: William Law
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body and soul, body of Christ, body of work, consult, dwelling, inquire, inquired, inquires, inquiring, Mary, Mary I, meekness, oracle, oracles, resignation, resignations, The Virgin, the Virgin Mary, Virgin, Virgin Mary
«To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
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Art of Living, being bold, boisterous, bold, bolder, boldest, cheerful, courageous, fatalism, gay, gays, gay and, lightheartedly, recklessly, resignation, resignations, the art
«Every person has the power to make others happy.Some do it simply by entering a room --others by leaving the room.Some individuals leave trails of gloom;others, trails of joy.Some leave trails of hate and bitterness;others, trails of love and harmony.Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism;others trails of faith and optimism.Some leave trails of criticism and resignation;others trails of gratitude and hope.What kind of trails do you leave?»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
bitterness, criticism, cynicism, entering, gloom, gratitude, harmony, individuals, leaving, leavings, optimism, pessimism, resignation, resignations, trailing, trails, with bitterness
«The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
graceful, leisure, repose, resignation, resignations, retirement, The Passions
«It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
fortitude, remarkable, resignation, resignations, The Suffering
«It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
at fault, carry out, commander, commander in chief, Commander in Chief of, considers, defective, defectives, in-chief, insist, resignation, resignations, undertakes