It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
Alice James
Related It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. momen... ALICE JAMES It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. BLAISE PASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed BLAISE PASCAL Be grateful for every moment and every breath. TERESA COLLINS To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Prosperity is a feeble reed.
[Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.] JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES) Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s... ST. AUGUSTINE With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon. SONG HYE-KYO Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a... YVES CHAUVIN Life is an audition. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in ... CRAIG GROESCHEL It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. BLACK ELK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but
one should not abuse it. ANTOINE DE RIVAROL If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experie... GLORIA NAYLOR I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM How about we call it lovingly fucking your brains out? R.K. LILLEY When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, b... ANDREW SHUE He did OK. It happens. It didn't just happen with James Reed. It happened with a lot of guys. HERMAN EDWARDS Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... I love Hermes, Lanvin, Brunello Cucinelli, Reed Krakoff, Alice + Olivia and Nanette Lepore. KELLY RUTHERFORD Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations... FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations... FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON It was a huge win. We couldn't afford another loss one game away from our conference schedule. We ha... JOE RYAN To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER As a stone tumbled in coarse reality,
constantly worn as it is refined,
adversity, it's true beauty ... JILL ANZINGER Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs peop... MUQTADA AL SADR Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talkin... ANDY STOLL The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I've got lots and lots of anxious moments ahead thinking that we are just one hit away, one bunt awa... DAVE MCDOWELL She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We have looked at a lot of players on trial an it is our intention to sign a new forward before the ... MAURICE SMITH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in... PRIYAVRAT THAREJA We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog... FRANZ KAFKA Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. CORITA KENT One loss is not going to kill us, but it is never good to take a loss. But we are lucky enough to ha... ADAM MILLER The contributions from this are actually immense. Each one of these cores is a tape recorder. DANIEL CUREWITZ To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, yo... HELEN VENDLER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die... KURT VONNEGUT Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th... CHAD PELLEY Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw... KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but th... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ... SARAH DESSEN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc... LEWIS N. ROE I felt loss at every hand. The loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom, and my own sense o... WILLIAM STYRON The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil... JOEL ANDROPHY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS Always remember that you are the observer and not the doer. Do not take life to be anything more tha... OSHO We let this one get away from us, there is no doubt about that. All we can do at this point is under... KYLE GREEN What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have thi... RICHARD GERE Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't ... JAMES RILEY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They hav... LEWIS N. ROE The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning... ABHIJIT NASKAR
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And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the ... ALICE CARY The animals of the world exist
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not made for humans any more
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