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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

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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

• I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.

  

  Marion Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Desire
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heart
  • Enemies
  • Prayers

• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Certain
  • Laws

• Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

  

  William Davenant
  • Blood
  • Anger
  • Malice

• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

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