"In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions."

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William Sloane Coffin

#Courage Quotes #Passion Quotes #Values Quotes

“I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.”
“Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.”

Source : Song: Forever In Blue Jeans, Album: You Don't Bring Me Flowers, 1978
“I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought. But if God in whom they believe created them with intellectual and rational powers, that imposes upon them the duty to try to understand the creed of their religion. Not to do so is to verge on superstition.”
“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.”
“In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.”
“If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.”
“In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy process is about co-creating and co-shaping of markets, creating new opportunities for business investment - and negotiating a better deal for the public too.”
“In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.44, Delphi Classics

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