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Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.”

Ifs Mind Children Suffering Given Poor Accepting Poverty Rich Journey Example Humility Holy Asking Ashamed Contempt Egypt Refusal Alms

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.”

War Reason Use Government Certain Given President Asking Congress Ships Germany Zone American Life Submarines War Zones

Author:George W. Norris

“Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!”

People Ideas Brain Talking Office Asking Kicks New Ideas Asking Questions

Author:Steve Jobs

“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Writing Wells Sea Research Sitting Letters Asking Rewards Marine Pondering Turtles Stanley Sea Turtle

Book:So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

Source: So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

“Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.”

Men Giving Giving Up Europe Asking Chicago

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.”

Way Years Next Taxes Tough Paid Asking Fellows Luxury Broke Inheritance Next Year Sales Tax Inheritance Tax

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.”

Giving Home Easy Wife Security Giving Up Asking Newborn Family Home Newborn Child

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.”

Ifs Want Motivational Information Computer Asking Valuable Access Command Data Files Asking Questions

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog."”

Men Feels Heart Suffering Felt Compassion Streets Dog He Man India Asking Sticks Sorry Definitions Describing Visiting Lama Dalai Stray Dogs

Author:Marc Ian Barasch

“The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?'”

Ifs Doe Suffering Universe Asks Powerful Asking Absurd Parcel Asking Why

Author:Emo Philips

“The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"”

Firsts Buddhism Tasks Asking Questioning Introspection Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"”

Want Should Doe Today Universe Buddhism Asking Everyday Should I Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.”

Thinking Men Care Spirit Asks Jesus Christ Trouble Asking Glorious

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away”

Long Enough Expression Moon Asking Clouds

Author:Jeff Buckley

“Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.”

Thinking Doe Asks Found Asking Seeking Knocking

Author:Tertullian

“I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"”

People Ifs World Wells Enough Vision Proud Sick Asking Aim Favourite Be Proud Demographics So Sick Favourite Things

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I see a lot of that on Tumblr - people asking advice from people they don't know. That's so odd to me. Asking an anonymous person for advice seems very odd.”

People Knows Persons Seems Advice Asking Odd

Author:Chris Black

“I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.”

Ifs Thinking Want Problem Reality Difficult Asking Craving Escaping Difficult Questions

Author:Joshua Mohr

“So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.”

Writing Energy Opinion Judging Flow Asking Details Stuck Now And Then Madmen Energy Flow

Author:Betty Sue Flowers

“Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?”

Feels Doe Habit Asking Intuition Feels Right Trust Your Intuition

Author:Lauren Mackler

“While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.”

Important Process Answers Discovery Asking Conclusion Ongoing Asking Questions

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.”

Want Years Long Ends Reason Purpose Left Asking Reason Why Meaning Of Life Guarantees Significance Significance Of Life

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.”

Realizing Fashion Asking Carrie Survived

Author:Anne Carson

“I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.”

Reason Asking Obvious Thanks Proposal Letterman

Author:Teri Garr

“Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.”

Ifs Want Believe Said Done Asks One Thing Asking Absurd This Day

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

“I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed.”

People Ifs Believe Would Be Healing Materials Calling Gains Asking Angry Meetings Pushing Manipulation Dressings Healed Healer Power Of God Sideshows

Author:John Wimber

“Give money to universities — that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.”

Giving Would Be Turns Trouble Asking University Communist

Author:Lang Hancock

“Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.”

Knows World Doe Powerful Cases Media Asking Journalist Spite Alcoholism Vulgarity World Famous

Author:Charles McGrath

“I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.”

People Giving Long Said Enough Sin Asking Lists Ministers Gentleman Lazy Laziness Idle Enough Said

Book:John Ploughman's Talks

Source: John Ploughman's Talks

“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.”

Giving Long Doe Done Helping Running Past Sin Answers Hell Objects Cost Difficulty Asking Forgiving Doctrine Offering Long Runs Forgiven Alas Miraculous Wipe Fresh Start Calvary Asking God

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.”

Men Said Two Hands Sleep Rooms Window Accounts Asking Hotel Guests Jumping Joints Hand In Hand Downtown Clerks Ritz

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.”

Answers Asking Individuality Being Yourself Contradictory Being Myself I Love Myself Inspirations Being Yourself

Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all want, the way we understand happiness.”

Way Want Lasts Form Asks Heaven Comfort Eternity Asking Stasis

Book:How to Wish

Source: How to Wish

“How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.”

Ifs Knows Needs Self Problem Body Asks Figures Asking Your Body Pounds Unnecessary Recipes Devouring

Book:How to Wish

Source: How to Wish

“I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.”

Thinking Trying Doe Sometimes Happens Audience Figures Balance Asking Imaginary Carried Away

Author:David Byrne

“I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."”

Thinking Knows Enough Would Be Remember House Like You Mom Asking My Mom

Author:Lena Dunham

“It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.”

People Important Young Wonder Asking Sense Of Wonder Asking Why

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.”

Winning Asking Privilege

Author:Liza Mundy

“You create your opportunities by asking for them.”

Life Opportunity Sports Asking Positivity Life And Love Opportunist Creative Visualization

Author:Shakti Gawain

“There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’”

Should Asks Energy Causes Wealth Poverty Asking Absence Causes Of Poverty

Author:Madsen Pirie

“When I ask, “How are you?” that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul.”

Knows Want Humans Heart Soul Moments Asks Know How Asking Lists Your Soul Items Crave Joyous Inbox

Author:Omid Safi

“Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.”

Wish Asking Making Changes Asking God

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.”

Men Sin Asking Committed Commit Repent

Book:Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor

Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor

“My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man.”

“People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.”

People Different Asking Nervous Sociology Anthropology Anthropologists

Author:Clifford Geertz

“We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure. But we must not stop asking and questing because the answers are complex and ambiguous.”

Answers Dangerous Essentials Asking Unity Complexes Make Sense Tension Uniqueness Doomed Ambiguous

Book:Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.”

Source: The Benchley Roundup

“I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.”

Ifs Long Important Character Three Enjoy Answers Attitude Amount Skills Research Asking Conviction Legs Lasting Stools Long Lasting

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

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