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“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”
Nelson Mandela

“Contentment is taking your present situation—whatever obstacles you are facing, whatever limitation you are living with, whatever chronic condition wears you down, whatever has smashed your dreams, whatever factors and circumstances in life tend to push you under—and admitting you don’t like it but never saying, “I can’t cope with it.”
John C. Maxwell

“Suppose that the earthly lives she and I shared for a few years are in reality only the basis for, or prelude to, or earthly appearance of, two unimaginable, supercosmic, eternal somethings.”
C.S. Lewis

“Everything I know, I know because I love.”
Leo Tolstoy

“It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him.”
C.S. Lewis

“When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?”
Albert Einstein

“If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don’t add value, then the whole team gets better. It’s just like trimming trees: If you don’t cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there’s room for productive new branches on the tree.”
John C. Maxwell

“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.”
George Washington

“Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one and of nothing at that moment, and from her smiling mouth poured forth notes, those notes that anyone can produce at the same intervals, and hold for the same length of time, yet a thousand times leave us cold, and the thousand and first time they set us thrilling and weeping.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
C.S. Lewis

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”
Ronald Reagan

“‎If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!”
Napoleon Hill

“[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.”
C.S. Lewis

“Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.”
Rick Warren

“There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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