"One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Destiny Quotes #Giving Quotes #Importance Quotes

“You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.”
“If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.”
“I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.”
“What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?”
“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.”

Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
“I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.”
“The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there--and He cares--about every step and every breath.”
“I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.”

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