"In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit."

-- Chris Burkard

#Joy Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Shortcuts Quotes

“I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.”
“Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.”
“Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.”

Source : Lotte Lehmann (2013). “More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.”
“You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t? have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.”
“Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself”
“Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.”

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