"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“Those they praise, but they read the others.”
“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.
“*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book.”
“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden is evils.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1851). “Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.37, Smith, Elder
“Trends become more apparent as you step further away from the chart.”
“You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty”
“There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.”
“I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.”

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