"Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure ***** my progress in the divine life."

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Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

Thomas Cogswell Upham

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“Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.”
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?”
“Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.”
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.322, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.”

Source : "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expands its sanitation programme" by Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.
“Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.”
“I had to find a way to speak without ever saying the 'you' plural.”

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