#so

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. ↗

— Ben Stein

#defeated #enter #even #finished #human

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#done #effort #everything #first #first step

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. ↗

— Ben Stein

#how #map #somewhere

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. ↗

— Ben Stein

#because #been #definitely #even #fear

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. ↗

— Ben Stein

#advancement #fertile #grows #life #personal

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love. ↗

— Edith Stein

#because #break #concerns #end #fellow

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. ↗

— Edith Stein

#every #holy #holy spirit #living #means

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#being #does #doing #drunk #father

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everything #i #i am #i think #important

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#does #i #i do #influence #long