Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes… — A.C.H. Smith Copy Share Image
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
If you're feeling stressed or anxious and you don't know why, ask yourself: What little thing led me here? Recently, I canceled… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it… — Origen Copy Share Image
Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
