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- When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
- The Work of the Chariot
- The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
- Shakti Gawain
- But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
- Alice Childress
- Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
- Oscar Arias Sanchez (1941 - )
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