"But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Mistake Quotes #Acting Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives”
“The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and ***** were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".”
“As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.”

Source : Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
“Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.”
“Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.”
“We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.23, Baker Books
“In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.”
“In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”

Source : "The Ecology of Human Development".

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