Seems Quotes - Page 40

• I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

  Vera Wang

  Disappointment, Successful, Mind

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• Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, One Direction, Doe

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• If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Views, Unbearable, Unfair

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Accomplishment, Worthy, Ifs

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• All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Students, Christianity, Disciple

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• Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

  Thomas Brooks

  Clouds, Pleasure, Pursuit

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• I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent...
  - Press in to God when you want to pull away.
  - Praise God out loud when you want to get lost in complaints.
  - Put yourself in the company of truth (reading Scriptures and surrounding yourself with positive, Godly people.)

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Bible, Reading, Godly

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 02, 2014

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• The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Suffering, Worst

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• Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.

  Pema Chodron

  Essence, Luxury, Joy

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• The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience.

  Howard Zinn

  Determination, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.27, South End Press

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• Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Ties, Groups, Tasks

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• Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.

  Dale Carnegie

  Faces, Overwhelming

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• While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

  Alan Cohen

  Important, World, Consciousness

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• I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.

  Ann Brashares

  Unique, Thinking, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jul 19, 2012

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• God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sadness, Night, Years

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• We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, War, Agriculture

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• Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

  Bill Bryson

  Benefits, Malls, Automobile

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• Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Effectiveness, Priorities

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• The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Eye, Long Ago

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Sheep, Heaven

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• The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

  George Washington

  Army, Usual, Pay

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• Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

  James Stockdale

  Mean Girls, Paper, Yeah

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• Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Men, Israel, Iran

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• The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

  Robert Greene

  Waiting, Doubt, Different

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