"Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Mirrors Quotes #Faces Quotes #Blame Quotes

“I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.”
“The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.”
“In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.”
“There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.”
“History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.”
“I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.”
“The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.”
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”

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