Differences Quotes - Page 48

For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

You want to make a big bold difference in this world? Then pray big, bold prayers.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of 35% out of the 15% that you earned, then your return would be 15% minus 35% of 15%-or only 9.75% per year compounded. So the difference there is over 3.5%. And what 3.5% does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye-opening.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

There's a huge difference between being in love and being in love with the thought of love. Recognize the difference. Never settle.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference