"One of the things that I learned is that you never truly know yourself until you challenge yourself. It is when you are confronted with challenges that you see what you are really made of, what is important to you and what your true aspirations are...sometimes you think that you really know yourself, and then you find out that you really don't."

-- Benoit Lecomte

#Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Important Quotes

“With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.”
“I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.”
“We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.”
“I wanted to be a professional baseball player.”
“I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.”
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.
“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.”
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”

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