"Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails."

-- Edmund Waller

#Long Quotes #Envy Quotes #Together Quotes

“I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.”
“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”

Source : John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah
“Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!”
“A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.”

Source : "The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest". Book by Dan Buettner, www.amazon.com. January 1, 2008.
“The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.”
“Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.”
“The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.”
“I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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