"Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven."

-- Ephrem the Syrian

#Prayer Quotes #Pride Quotes #Men Quotes

“Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.”
“I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.”
“I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.”
“I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.”
“There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.”
“My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.”
“Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”

Source : Meg Cabot (2008). “All American Girl”, p.67, Pan Macmillan
“(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”

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