"The only way to change the world is to change yourself."

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Source : Sarah Susanka (2007). “The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters”, p.38, Random House

Sarah Susanka

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“I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry... As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see...the Lord nailed to the cross.”
“Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position”
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.”

Source : "It's a Great Deal, All Three of Me Think So". Book by Bruce A. Rosenblat, 2009.
“It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.”
“Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”
“I focused on the passing houses filled with couples whoâ€™d somehow survived this teenage craziness of â€˜he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just canâ€™t win.â€™ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.”
“I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again.”

Source : Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books
“To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.”

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