"Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires"

-- Helen Zille

#Country Quotes #Writing Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.”
“Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.”
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”
“An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.”

Source : Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”
“Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.”
“Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.”

Source : Mother Angelica (2016). “Mother Angelica's Answers, Not Promises: Straightforward Solutions to Life's Puzzling Problems”, p.23, Sophia Institute Press
“Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly will it come about.”
“Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.”

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