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• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • You
  • Find

• Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

  

  John Buchan
  • Loyalty

• My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Fashion
  • Sister
  • Magazines

• If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stop

• You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Mood

• We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Deep

• Freedom is the world of joy.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Joy

• You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Kill
  • Hunting
  • Sport

• When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

  

  John Milton
  • God
  • Speak
  • Knowing

• God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Mean
  • Speak
  • Comfort

• I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Movies

• You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Women
  • Disgusted
  • Approbation

• The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Help
  • Soul
  • Bird

• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

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