Golden Quotes - Page 39

• When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Boys, Boss

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• But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Lying, Flower, Light

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• Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

  Charles Fletcher Dole

  Vision, Working Together, Harmony

  Charles Fletcher Dole (1906). “The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it”

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• No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

  Cheryl Strayed

  People, Healthy, Way

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.139, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.

  Helen Keller

  Law, Perfect, Growth

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.

  Barry Goldwater

  Beautiful, Photography, Wall

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• I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music.

  Monica Baldwin

  Sunshine, Sky, Yellow

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

  Michael Jackson

  Teacher, Children, Important

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• It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

  Richard Branson

  Fire, Important, Dresses

  "Richard Branson: My golden rule of business" by Jack Preston, www.virgin.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

  John Milton

  Moving, Heaven, Sound

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.332

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• Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agriculture, Covered, Seeds

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.345

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• The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

  George Francis Train

  Years, Land, History

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• In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

  James Bryce

  Dream, Nature, Europe

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

  David Simon

  Golf, Bonus, Journalism

  Interview with David Doody, www.utne.com. September 2011.

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• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  Rand Beers

  Eight, Chinese, United States

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• Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, Attitude, Heart

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• Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

  Michael Meade

  Tragedy, Quality, World

  "Golden Repair of the Cracks in the World" by Michael Meade, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.

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• Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

  Mark Buchanan

  Giving, Embrace, Sabbath

  Mark Buchanan (2007). “The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Reach for the sky
  Keep your eye on the prize
  Forever in my mind
  Be my golden sunshine
  It's raining in your mind
  So push them clouds aside
  Forever by my side
  You're my golden sunshine

  Matisyahu

  Rain, Eye, Sunshine

  Song: Sunshine, Album: Spark Seeker, 2012

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• Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Dust, People

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Air, Pouring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1714, Library of Alexandria

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• I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Book, Heart, Character

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• God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Future, Past

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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