"Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Christian Quotes #Character Quotes #True Life Quotes

“I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.”
“Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.”
“We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.”

Source : Taiichi Ohno (2012). “Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional
“maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.”
“In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.”

Source : Ruth Behar (2014). “The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart”, p.26, Beacon Press
“Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.”

Source : "The Call of Freedom". "Orations and Addresses" by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1894.
“You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.”

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