#fort

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it. ↗

— Antonin Sertillanges

#effort #grow #reward #work #life

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smoothe and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success. ↗

— Luci Shaw

#god #pain #life

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ↗

— John Maxwell

#growth #life #life

Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end...because in the end, it shows you a whole new world !! Make an attempt.. ↗

— Manoj Arora

#awesome #beginning #chaos #comfort-zone #new-world

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#sad #sadness #love

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe. ↗

— Jean Harlow

#breathe #makes #me #parts #uncomfortable

. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#good-fortune #happiness #long-life #age