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inspirational-life goes-on add
The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. Barbara Kingsolver
inspirational-life men this-life
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Boris Pasternak
inspirational-life inability trouble
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. Blaise Pascal
inspirational-life daddy grind
Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day. Ray Lewis
inspirational-life greatness done
Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.
inspirational-life heart able
Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything. Rainer Maria Rilke
inspirational-life virtue endeavor
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. Sidney Lanier
inspirational-life past thorough-knowledge
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future. John Quincy Adams
inspirational-life design preparation
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design. Margaret Sanger
pastor
As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone. John Allen
pastime
Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son. Orlando Bloom
past thinking years
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. Art Buchwald
past appreciate modern-life
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times. Aziz Ansari
past needs study
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future. C. S. Lewis
past mind use
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. Bryant H. McGill
past attention genius
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present. Celia Green
past thinking looks
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.' Brian Eno
past years justice
I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen. Bram Fischer