"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

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Source : Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

Mary McLeod Bethune

#Life Quotes #Faith Quotes #Peace Quotes

“Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.”

Source : Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.91, University of Chicago Press
“A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.”
“It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.”
“Resolve and thou art free.”
“Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.”
“I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.”
“When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.”
“Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.”

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