"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."

-- Antoine Rivarol

#People Quotes #Worry Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”
“I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now youâ€™ve gone all stabby and whatnot.”
“That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.”
“The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.”

Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.131, University of Toronto Press
“Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.”
“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”
“If I'm going to get in these races and run against the best guys, I'm going to be there with them. And if I die, then I die, but I'm not going to walk away from the track saying, 'I didn't give everything.' Ever again.”
“The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.”

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