"It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Inspiring Quotes #Self Actualization Quotes #Given Quotes

“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”
“It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!”
“Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.”
“My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.”
“Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.”
“The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.”

Source : Daniel Berrigan (1988). “Daniel Berrigan: poetry, drama, prose”
“Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it saw the deliverance and was enjoying it.”

Source : F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.112, Chosen Books
“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated

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