"Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."

-- Eleanor Brown

#Selfish Quotes #Care Quotes #Empty Quotes

“Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.”
“I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.”
“You can't get angry just because you can't control the world as you please.”
“To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.”
“I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.”
“Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.”
“Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.”
“I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.”

Source : "Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler". Book by Frank McDonough, 2009.

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