"Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe."

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Hoe Quotes #Needs Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona.”
“Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.”

Source : Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers (2014). “Everybody's Got Something”, p.32, Hachette UK
“Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.”
“Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.”
“We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.”
“It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!”
“So many people are so busy being busy that they donâ€™t spend time on the foundation of their life.”
“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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