"We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Optimism Quotes #Effort Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.”
“The love of God is not created- it is His nature.”
“The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational”

Source : Steve Allen (1996). “But Seriously--: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind”
“There is a lot of people just shaking their heads and wondering, what was really behind this meeting [of Donald Trump and Enrique Pena] as far as from the president of Mexico.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.”
“God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.”
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

Source : Quoted in Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman Among Friends (1982).
“I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be,”

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