#age

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#heresy #religion #age

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#feel #fugitive #i #i feel #i feel like

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#attitude #dark #dark ages #him #i

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #philosophy #age

I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.' 'What do you fear, lady?' he (Aragorn) asked. 'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#age

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #age

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#boxer #boxing #higher #i #land

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#church #dallas-willard #inspirational #religion #age