"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."

-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Success Quotes #Education Quotes #Inspirational Life Quotes

“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.”
“I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.”
“As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.”
“My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence.Â I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.40
“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”
“We cannot say this or that trouble will not befall, yet we may, by the help of the Spirit, say, Nothing that does befall will make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.”
“Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.”
“I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.”

Source : "Talking About Fairy Tales with Lily Cole". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. May 30, 2012.

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