John Eldredge Quotes
Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to be yourself.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
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Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.
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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
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For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.
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I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.
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Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
