#means

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#creativity #doorway #effort #give #groaning

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#carried #family #family background #means #out

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #indian #indians #least #means

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#always #any #back #conquering #difficulty

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams. ↗

— Steve Winwood

#bought #car #dreams #high #just

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#articulate #child #expresses #hears #individual

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system. ↗

— Phil Berger

#chronic #controllable #disease #even #fun

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#means #nothing #sadder #standards #than