Rheta Grimsley Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.
-- Rheta Grimsley Johnson

#Life And Love #Men #Drones
The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences...
-- Rheta Grimsley Johnson

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Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.
I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
No one man is superior to the game.
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson famous quotes

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