"When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something."

-- Jared Sparks

#Motivational Quotes

“Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.”
“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”
“All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.”
“I don't think blogs can make or break a candidate. I think they're going to be important to a certain degree. I think they can help somebody who's lesser known, somebody's who's lower down in the food chain politically. I think somebody like a Hillary Clinton doesn't necessarily need bloggers for people to know who she is and what she stands for. I think she's got all the - she's got a big enough soap box - a bigger soap box than she'll ever need that we could ever provide in the blog world.”
“I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.”
“How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com
“If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.”
“In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.”

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