"By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch."

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Source : Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

Parker J. Palmer

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“If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.”

Source : "Success Stories Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documentary, 2002.
“Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Often the very things that you think have disqualified you are the ones that qualify you to do what God has called you to do.”
“I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down,”
“I like things that are unique and extreme.”

Source : Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.
“This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.”
“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”

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