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Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. Melody Beattie

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light. Rodney Dangerfield

Me Dark Light Wife Naked Saw She Afraid Then Now

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? C. S. Lewis

Happiness Life God Thoughts Surrender Will Own Everyone Our Everything Remains Take Well Make Call Him How Sources False Going While Turn Then Us Interests Noticed Hard Less Agreeable Away Plausible

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. Confucius

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power. George Harrison

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size. Glennon Doyle Melton

Time Day You Together Yourself Strong Wake Up Back Finally One Day Shape Put Over Piece Shattered Wake Up Different Size Happen Realize Then Whole Now Differently

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?' Jimmy Graham

Good Day Me You Feel Good Yourself Doing The Right Thing Bad Day Think Right Thing Randomly Battles Bad Bad Days Mentally Weeks Feel Days Like Sore Am Doing Questioning End Up Where The Right Thing Biggest Then Really Hard Sudden Why Right Thing

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. Lao Tzu

Patriotism Nation Strife Patriots Then Filled Flourish

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. Martin Heidegger

Life Death Myself Anxiety Will Face Free My Life Become Only Take Squarely Acknowledge Then Pettiness

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. Michael Jordan

You Selfish Achieve Else Once Stay Touch Never Unselfish Highest Highest Level Isolate Get Then Successful Your Level

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. Nikola Tesla

Nature Man Survival Law Result Will Year Past Sense Alive Out See Ruthless New Governing Continue Began Fittest Established Unfit Pity Then Ages Strains Breed Interfere Less Workings Keep Roughly Desirable Universally

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. Nikos Kazantzakis

Own Collapse Cross Crossing Having Students True Invite Over Joyfully Encouraging Which Them Themselves Then Create Use Teachers Bridges

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was. Meghan O'Rourke

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. Andrew Carnegie

Become Rich Way Put Eggs Then Your Watch Basket

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Ernest Hemingway

Great New Beginning Book Sometimes Try Will Beginning Luck Others Tried Tries Something Writer Attainment Never He True Failed New Beyond Always Been Done Where Again Succeed Then Should Each

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J. B. Priestley

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help. Jan Schakowsky

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life Death Experience Live Those Temporal Take Timelessness Duration Infinite Eternal Eternal Life Mean Eternity Then Who Event Present Belongs

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow. Rebecca Pidgeon

You Feathers Gossip Roof Fly Wind Single Every Slice Find Feather Take Open Know How How Far Pillow Go Up Want Far Then Away Travels

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste. Srikumar Rao

Life Thankful Good Day You Grateful Life Is Too Short Sense Believe Too Tremendous Several Alive Has-Been Bestowed Purpose Feel Come Been Times Short Then Your Derive Fortune Deep Waste Good Fortune Deeply Wasting

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson

Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it. Tyson Fury

God Champion Young Monster Guy David Beaten Never Had Came Been Child Did Young Guy Goliath Then Who Forward Believed

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Barack Obama

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