#les

Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us. ↗

— Joumana Haddad

#war #life

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can. ↗

— Michael Scott

#lesson #life #michael-scott #niccolo-machiavelli #the-sorceress

Cause and effect, in the Buddhist sense, though. Any action you undertake creates a seed that will sprout when the conditions are right, creating a good or bad result." "Do you believe in it?" He doesn’t allow even a pause. “Very much so. ↗

— Jacquie Underdown

#buddhist #life #life-lessons #life

Let’s talk about adoration, people love adoration but they should not love it so much, because it can make them turn from the righteousness of God and His Holy Word to receive adoration from sinners who don’t believe and want their own way, so it is better to be humble, and obedient to God and suffer persecution of his Holy Word then to seek and long for adoration from men ↗

— Lydia Thornton

#god #jesus #life-lessons #people #life

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ #christianity #discipleship #discipline #fasting

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#lessons #life #lit #movies #quotes

Whaddaya want?" growled Viola, our small, surly, octogenarian waitress. What did I want? A job. A clue. A love. "Two coffees," Len answered for me. Coffee would do for now, I guess. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#life #life

It's curling ribbon, but you don't have to curl it. You don't have to do everything the ribbon tells you to do. Don't live your life like that. ↗

— Dan Bergstein

#life-lessons #life

Life is a miracle. We, all of us are creator beings. We are the joyful choice makers. ↗

— Sakshi Chetana

#miracles #life

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#east #full #giving #middle #middle east