"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it."

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Mark Twain

#Mastery Quotes #Absence Quotes

“No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.”
“Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
“I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the pressure of writing. There are a lot of things that you can't write down because they aren't true. You can only put down what holds water at the time that you are doing it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.”

Source : "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.
“You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.”

Source : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.47, Image
“For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.”
“Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.”
“Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.”

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