"The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Training Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Chance Quotes

“They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.”
“Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.”
“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.”
“I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.”
“The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.”
“I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.”
“Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!”
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all alongâ€•the same person that I am today.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.22, Macmillan

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