"Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs"

-- C. S. Lewis

#Determination Quotes #Cost Quotes #Species Quotes

“You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a difference, and turn this around. And to not take part and to just watchâ€¦â€¦.., but if you don't push back, if you don't face it and confront it for what it is, it'll just takeover, and then no one will be free.”
“The best bet you get is an even break.”
“the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.”
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
“Itâ€™s no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot,”
“I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.”

Source : Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.133, Penguin
“I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.”

Source : Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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