"Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything."

-- Amanda Burton

#Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.”

Source : Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”
“It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, andâ€”without even knowing itâ€”we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.”
“It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.”
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when youâ€™re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.”
“Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.”

Source : Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.288, InterVarsity Press
“Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.”

Source : "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.
“These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.”
“You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.”

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