"If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes."

-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Letting Go Quotes #Mean Quotes #Maturity Quotes

“It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success.”
“Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.”

Source : "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.
“a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...”
“There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.”
“I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.”
“Play is your route to mastery.”
“Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.”
“In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.”

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