"Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Greatness Quotes #Important Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“In solitude, at last, weâ€™re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be definedâ€”by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence”
“I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming to God for the fulfillment of His will, coming to a God who delights to answer prayer.”
“China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state,”

Source : "Israel, Palestinians to resume direct negotiations". www.cnn.com. July 13, 1998.
“How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?”

Source : Kenneth C. Davis (2009). “Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned”, p.18, Harper Collins
“The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.”
“I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it.”
“Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.”

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