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«It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.»
Author: Donald Miller | About: Change, Christianity, Life | Keywords: answers, change, feel, feel like, happen, lives, looking, looking for, pace, paced, paces, pacing, ran into, reveal, running, simple, stroll, strolled, these, The Run, The Simple Life, This Is, To do, wishes
«It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Courage | Keywords: a few, faint, fainter, faintest, fainting, faints, intend, struggle, The Faint, useful, valiant, wishes
«If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.»
Author: St. John of the Cross | About: Men | Keywords: In The Dark, The Dark, treads, walk in, wishes
«I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery»
Author: George Washington (President) | Keywords: abolition, abolition of slavery, adopted, sincerely, slavery, wishes
«He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | Keywords: get the hang, hanged, hang in, hang out, hang up, rich, rich in, wishes, year
«Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Achievement, Life, Pleasure, Success, Wishes | Keywords: affords, difficulties, forming, gratified, gratifies, one-step, passing, seeing, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, wishes
«If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: hashish, oppression, rid, unbearable, wishes
«If wishes were horses beggars would ride»
Author: Proverb | About: Wishes | Keywords: Beggared, beggars, horses, ride, wishes
«Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.»
Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop, Theologian) | About: Happiness, Mankind | Keywords: as to, impossible, indeed, wishes
«If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: behave, helpful, human race, indefinite, material, peaceful, period, prolonged, prosperity, wishes
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