"Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be."

-- Rose Philippine Duchesne

#Humble Quotes #Order Quotes #Grace Quotes

“When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.”
“Everything we personally own thatâ€™s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that weâ€™re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.”

Source : Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin
“Never underestimate a girlâ€™s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she wonâ€™t defend them to her death. Because itâ€™s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. Itâ€™s the guys, the gals. Itâ€™s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.”
“It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1975). “The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815”
“I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.”
“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive”
“I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.”
“The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.”

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