"The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason."

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Source : Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Joseph Joubert

#Life Quotes #Age Quotes #Innocence Quotes

“The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.”
“Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.”
“Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)”
“You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!”
“The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.”

Source : Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons
“I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.”
“A goat's a goat. Whether you sautÃ© or barbeque it, it's still a goat.”
“In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.”

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