"When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
- G. K. Chesterton
Quotes
Our collection of inspiring quotes.
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"We are most content when we are grateful for what we own, satisfied with what we make, and generous to those in need."
- C. Swindoll
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"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."
- Max de Pree
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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
- C. S. Lewis
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"Wanting what someone else has is like wanting the wrong tools for the job you were given to do."
- Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein