I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNSFar must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e’er lies.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
AGNES REPPLIER -
You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -
Failure is the test of greatness.
HERMAN MELVILLE -
It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
ALAIN DE BOTTON -
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.
HENRY FORD -
We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS -
Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress.
LIL WAYNE -
Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
ERIC CANTONA -
The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL -
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPS -
Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one’s consciousness.
HAROLD KLEMP -
Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
BARBARA WARD