"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Motivational Quotes #Godly Quotes #Christian Inspirational Quotes

“Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.”

Source : Amos Oz (1999). “The Story Begins: Essays on Literature”, Harcourt
“I don't like to start anything, ever, but if they're going to try to intimidate me, I like to just stand there and say, 'Sorry, it ain't gonna happen.' I'm shy but I'm badass. I'm not shy in a timid way, just shy in a way that I'm not comfortable with people.”

Source : "Rosie Napravnik: 'I had a dream of winning the Derby on Shanghai Bobby'". Interview with Daniel Ross, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2013.
“Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey.”
“Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.”
“The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.”
“And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.”
“I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.”
“They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives.”

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