"After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me."

-- Bethany Dillon

#Jesus Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
“You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan
“Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.”
“If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.”
“Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.”
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.”
“I love my fans! My job would not be what it is without them.”
“I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.”

Source : Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

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