"God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents..."

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Douglas Wilson

#Ungrateful People Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.”
“I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.”
“I thought about the difference between a mama's girl and a daddy's girl. I decided that a daughter who belongs to her daddy expects gifts, while a daughter who belongs to her mama expects a lot more. Not from her mama. From herself.”

Source : Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon (2010). “Zora and Me”, p.69, Candlewick Press
“The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.”
“There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.”
“A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.”
“The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.”

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