"I am as I am. The world is……" — William Nicholson
"I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it."
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William Nicholson
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20 Quotes by William Nicholson
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We read to know that we are not alone.
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Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I…
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Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
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I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of…
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Use your power gently.
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We are the slaves of slaves
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All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from…
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He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no…
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To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why…
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Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want…
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God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake…
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Be content to seem what you really are.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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