"A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Uplifting Quotes #Determination Quotes #Men Quotes

“Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.”

Source : John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
“When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.”
“Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.”

Source : "Outline of the Doctrine of Knowledge" by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, XI, 1810.
“This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.”
“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”
“Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.”
“I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.”

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