Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
BILL VAUGHANBeauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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