"No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Thinking Quotes #Effort Quotes #Matter Quotes

“You are what you leave behind.”
“When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.”
“Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.”
“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.”
“..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.708, Allison & Busby Ltd
“As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.”
“When people tell stories that unite the community or the organization that they work for and illustrate the principles of that organization, those people rise in the social standing in that group. They rise in power.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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