"Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security."

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Source : The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

Charles Handy

#Islands Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.”
“We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.”
“I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?”
“Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.”
“Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.”

Source : Michelle Obama's Speech speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.
“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.”
“Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.”
“There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.”

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