"Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth."

-- Nido R Qubein

#Opportunity Quotes #Growth Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.”
“When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.”

Source : Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.43
“Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.”
“It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.”

Source : "A Song for Summer".
“To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.”
“Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.”
“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”

Source : Maxim Gorky (2015). “Mother”, p.20, Booklassic
“I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time”

Source : Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.33, Penguin

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