I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent… — William James Copy Share Image
It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“I could almost see the resignation on the old man’s face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I've known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense.… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
I said if you want me to go back to Afghanistan and work, I'm happy to do that. If you think accepting… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
I take this pain, Lord Jesus, From Thine own hand; The strength to bear it bravely Thou wilt command. I am too… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and… — Tor Ulven Copy Share Image
If I have not decided to step down, it does not mean that I do not want to step down but because… — Suharto Copy Share Image
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health,… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
“My knowledge of the dangerous problems that were developing at the Desoto Solar Farm and my following of OSHA law were clearly… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic… — William James Copy Share Image
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary,… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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