Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.
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Carroll Bryant
What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
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Bret Easton Ellis
Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.
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Thomas M. Sterner
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?"- Morrie
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Mitch Albom
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Terence McKenna
More Quotes By Daniel Defoe
Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us of it; that I thought a woman was a free agent as well as a man, and was born free, and, could she manage herself suitably, might...
I added, that whoever the woman was that had an estate, and would give it up to be the slave of a great man, that woman was a fool, and must be fit for nothing but a beggar; that it was my opinion a woman...
I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in this desolate Manner I should end my life; the Tears would run plentifully down my Face when I made these Reflections, and sometimes I would expostulate...
