"I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success."

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Source : "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self, Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

Howard Jacobson

#Spiritual Quotes #Worldly Quotes

“There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.”
“The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.”
“Cardiac depression is very powerful, it's very black, it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.”
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...”
“In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
“The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.”
“It's so much easier to do good than to be good.”
“I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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