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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Melody Beattie

Life, Home, Friend, Thankful, Gratitude

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen

Friendship, Friend, Moment, Grief

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice. Matthew Underwood

Family, Life, Love, Passion, Path, Dice

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton

Truth, Truth Is, Simplicity, Things

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Relationship, Generosity, Love Is

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams

Nature, Ignorance, Honor, America, Want

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. Anne Frank

Hope, Peace, Death, Foundation, Think

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein

Goals, Age, Perfection, Opinion, Seems

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac

My Own, Nothing, Own, Offer, Had, Except

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence. Brian Greene

Experience, Believe, Process, Foundation

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. Winston Churchill

History, Simple, Action, Thinking, Want

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. George Carman

Soul, Feelings, Like, Drinks, Mixed

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. Gerald R. Ford

History, Progress, Experience, Moral, Us

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. Tom Hanks

People, Me, Spot, Cause, Freeze, Riots

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. Susan Lieberman

Family, World, Help, Traditions, Safe

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Charles Babbage

I Am, Ideas, You, Kind, Wrong, Question

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. L. Lionel Kendrick

Respect, Compassion, Anger, Truth, Tough

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. Walt Whitman

Together, Happy, Without, Single, Stay

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. Francis Bacon

Truth, More, Than, Error, Readily

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. Anne Grant

Journey, Grief, World, Feel, You

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture. Amy Tan

Family, Mother, History, Culture, Know

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well! Jim Mattis

Fear, Fight, Purpose, Long, America

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. Bob Dole

Name, Moral, Understand, Profit, Deserve

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion. Mitski

Identity, Think, Not Knowing, Comfort

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. Brian Greene

Life, Science, Perspective, Experience

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. - Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. Albert Einstein

Go, Away, Used, Go Away, State, Weeks

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