"It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?"

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Mas Oyama

#Achievement Quotes #Tears Quotes #Toil Quotes

“We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.”
“[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.”
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
“When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.”
“The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.”
“Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.”
“If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.”

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