"Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge."

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Steven Callahan

#Goal Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.”

Source : Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.599, Aeterna Press
“I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.”
“I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.”
“Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.”
“If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.”
“From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).”
“Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).”
“In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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