"Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test."

-- Rick Warren

#Character Quotes #Tests Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Perhaps there really are occasions in life when itâ€™s best not to say anything.”

Source : Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk
“What urge will save us now that sex won't?”
“Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.”
“The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.”
“It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.”
“I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.”
“The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.”
“Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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