"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Discovery Quotes #Risk Quotes #Values Quotes

“After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.”
“It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.”
“The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.”
“Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination.”

Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (2006). “Niels Lyhne”, p.60, Penguin
“As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.”
“Sometimes I happen to be the right guy in the right spot at the right moment.”
“Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.”

Source : Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan
“Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.”

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