"You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Long Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I'm the one and only. In heaven and on Earth”
“Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system”
“The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.”

Source : Sholem Asch (1941). “What I Believe”
“No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.”

Source : Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”
“Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.”
“The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.”
“The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.”
“I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...”

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