"She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life."

-- Frances E. Willard

#Mastery Quotes #Gains Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.”

Source : Jane Kenyon (2005). “Collected Poems”, Graywolf Press
“Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.”
“In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.”
“The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.”
“I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.”
“We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.”
“Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.”
“Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.”

Source : Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.34, Routledge

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