"The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles."

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Source : Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”

C.P. Cavafy

#Lines Quotes #Littles Quotes #Golden Quotes

“We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.”
“I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.12, Conari Press
“I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.”

Source : "Iain Duncan Smith: I will tackle root causes of poverty" by Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.
“Have the courage to act instead of react.”
“Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part”
“Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.”
“I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.”
“When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.”

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