The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
Pema ChodronPema Chodron School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
Ray DalioRay Dalio In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross The one who obey’s God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.
Lysa TerKeurstLysa TerKeurst As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive.
Robert HookeRobert Hooke People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
John DonneJohn Donne