"Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul."

-- Rumi

#Beauty Quotes #Truth Quotes #Wings Quotes

“In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.”
“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.”
“If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.”
“I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.”
“Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.”
“The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.”
“If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.”

Source : D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles
“The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.”

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