#iv

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#comfort #disciple #discipline #faith #give

Love, hope, fear, faith-these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character ↗

— Robert Browning

#faith

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #changed #come #completely #could

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#desire #motivation #oneself #personality #attitude

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. ↗

— Rollo May

#quiet #solitude #creativity

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#bought #brown #buried #down #down the road

Every negative... Has a positive side... ↗

— Nelson M. Lubao

#life-lessons #lpositive-attitude #right-perspectives #attitude

You can't just make me different and then leave ↗

— John Green

#death #driving #drunk #dying #loss

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#live #may #on the contrary #order #succeed

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. ↗