"I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it."

-- Taylor Caldwell

#Goal Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“... you... are stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the Father's building, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross (cf. Jn. 12:32), making use of the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means by which you ascended, and your love the way which led up to God. You, therefore, as well as all your fellow-travelers, are God-bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ.”
“Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.”
“If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.”
“My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.”
“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”
“In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.”
“What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.”
“Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.”

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

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