#render

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#bring #country #family #greatest #mankind

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#growth #security #surrender #temporary

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#attempt #being #love #love is #mutual

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. ↗

— James Madison

#hatred #labor #luxury #other #pride

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand. ↗

— Diet Eman

#no-regrets #surrender #unpredictability-of-life #diet

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#capable #far #hostile #important #religion

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves. ↗

— Anthony Collins

#enough #equal #render #themselves #things

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #surrender #art