"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

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Source : "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

Jim Elliot

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2015). “Twenty Wishes”, p.340, MIRA
“Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.”

Source : Brad Meltzer (2013). “The Fifth Assassin: The Culper Ring Trilogy 2”, p.10, Hachette UK
“I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.”

Source : "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.
“Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.”
“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”
“The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.”

Source : "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.
“At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand
“Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.”

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