#lacking

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. ↗

— George Muller

#counsel #declarations #did #fellow-men #god

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. ↗

— John Malkovich

#chase #confidence #describe #ghosts #i

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#courage #does #enough #lacking #make

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#even #lacking #makes #think #unbearable

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#buddhist #i #inspiration #lacking #never

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #completely #cosmic #discoveries #had

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#acknowledged #being #clearly #fitness #force

Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#everyone #everything #lacking #lost #missing

Life and death have been lacking in my life. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#death #lacking #life #life and death #my life