S Quotes
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“Sometimes we lack Faith because we torment ourselves with past failures and then appreciate what God can do for us. But, there is good news. When we renew our minds and reflect on God’s plan, we begin to overcome.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.”
“Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and sometimes we learn the lessons of life through joy and comfort. Whatever be the case, the most important thing is the great lesson we learn out of the lessons life teaches us. If you fail to learn the lessons greatly, life will teach you a great lesson.”
“Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it”
“Sometimes we let them treat us badly because we yearn to feel loved and accepted so much that we are willing to do anything to get it. It's very painful to realize that no matter how much you try, you feel like it, do not even want to accept you as you are. When they finally understand you, I regret all that time you've spent pleasing others and you wonder what that is so horrible in you that prevents them even pretend to want.”
Source: Night Play
“Sometimes, we like to imagine that we know a person because of how they used to be. Sadly, the reality of this is that people change. They love you at some point then 'move on' and resent you for the rest of your life." —Birds On The Wall”
“Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.”
“Sometimes we live no particular way but our own”
Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs
“Sometimes we’ll find ourselves tied up in knots, and we’ll need the prayer and help of others to undo those knots. Sometimes we’ll be the instruments of undoing.”
“Sometimes we look around and realize we need new friends. That’s the sign that they are just around the bend :)”
Source: IgnitingYOU: How 52 Weeks of Inspiration and Action Can Lead You to Your Dreams
“Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.”
“Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.”
“Sometimes we look at life from our the perspective of our own problems and in so doing, ignore how fortunate we really are.” From A Matter of Perspective in the Kindle book Slices of Life by The Prophet of Life.”
Source: Slices of Life 1: Humorous Stories, A Storyteller Series Book
“Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are.”
“Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.”
“Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was.”
“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”
“Sometimes we lose only to gain more.”
“sometimes
we love
in fingertip touch…
and it’s
just as close as
we can get”
“Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn't make you a bad person. It just means your heart's too big.”
“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Sometimes we make a lack in judgement because we’re lonely. Occasionally that means falling to understand the pain experience brings. Not all sadness hurts, not all pain is suffering, and not all discomfort lasts. Torment is a virtue in disguise. To experience is to understand and to understand is to be given knowledge.”
“Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.”
“Sometimes we make bad decisions when we are in a rush or not paying attention. If we can monotask thinking and really pay attention, we can think things through and arrive at better decisions most of the time. Well-thought-out decisions tend to be healthier, more considerate of others, and generally better for everyone in the long run.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup.
Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals – or just good ideas.And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.”
Source: Vegan Virgin Valentine
“Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.”
“Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.”
“Sometimes we make good choices. Sometimes we make bad ones, but we are not defined by our mistakes.” Her steady gaze, so much like Daddy’s, never left mine. “When I look at you I see so much more.”
Something shifted deep inside me and a pang shot through my stomach.
“But you don’t know,” I choked out.
Aunt Sister squeezed my arm. “I know you, Mary.”
I expected her to repeat the phrases I’d so often heard about how God knows everything and loves you anyway. But she didn’t. I guess she figured I already knew.
I did.
Sister reminded me without saying a word. I just wasn’t sure I completely believed it anymore.”
Source: When the Wildflowers Bloom Again
“Sometimes we make mistakes and call them coincidences.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.”
“Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!”
“Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.”
“Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.”
“Sometimes, we may discover we helped the wrong person, but that should not be a reason to stop helping other people in need, even though we were fooled previously. Sometimes, we may discover we helped the wrong person, but that should not be a reason to stop helping other people in need, even though we were fooled previously. If you want to do good there are opportunities everywhere. Don’t let the fools spoil your good heart.”
Source: LESSONS in LIFE: Achieving a better you through self-reflection
“Sometimes we may feel disheartened and demoralized but we must keep faith in ourselves. We may be going through a lot of ups and downs in our life. But we must realise that growth begins from chaos!”
“Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.”
“SOMETIMES WE MAY NEED TO LOSE A BATTLE,
TO LEARN THE BEST WAYS TO WIN THE WAR.”
“Sometimes we may trying to correct a mistake by another mistake so that we should be wise”
“Sometimes we may wonder what we have gotten ourselves into. Unfamiliar or unexpected incidents throw us off balance. Although we have always been stable like rocks in the surf, we feel trapped by our vulnerability. The router of our personality has broken down and no longer emits or receives any signals. We have no interaction with the world. We realize, at that moment, that we are interdependent beings, and our individuality only exists through a cluster of interactions. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.”
“Sometimes we meet folks who appear rather plain, yet when they speak from a heart of service, love, compassion, and wisdom, they instantly become respected favorites.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny”
“Sometimes we meet people who have been so beaten and betrayed in life, that they reach a point where they do not allow themselves to trust, nor are they able to identify a true friendship when they have it in front of them. You simply have to let them be and not feel alluded to.”
“Sometimes we meet someone and feel like we have known them all our lives”
“Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.”
“Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it's a choice, day to day.”
“Sometimes we miss the miraculous of all that we have been blessed with because we're so focused on the one thing we don't have. When this happens, we become disillusioned with all that we do have.”