"So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Positive Thinking Quotes #Roots Quotes #Green Quotes

“My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? Whatâ€™s important about you? Why does the customer need you?”
“Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.160, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.”
“I like to act because I can forget about everything else.”
“We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.”
“Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).”
“It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula.”
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”

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