"Defending mediocrity is exhausting."

-- Seth Godin

#Mediocrity Quotes

“My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.”

Source : "Paul Anka, the original Canadian idol". Interview with Ben Rayner, www.thestar.com. April 16, 2013.
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
“We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives.”
“Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.”

Source : Hans Von Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr (2010). “To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption”, p.39, Ignatius Press
“Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'”
“Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.”

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