"Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself."

-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Maturity Quotes #Giving Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.”

Source : David Almond (2014). “Kit's Wilderness”, p.76, Hachette UK
“I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.”
“The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.”
“Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.”

Source : "Lecture 14: How to Operate". Keith Rabois' "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. November 6, 2014.
“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.”
“A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.”
“The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.”

Source : Theodore Austin-Sparks (2011). “The School of Christ”, p.5, Book Ministry

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