Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. - Psalm 126
The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
- Michael Moore
“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
― Alfred Hitchcock
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”
“No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
God never chooses to give up on us or to put us on an assembly line and treat us as a commodity. With each of us he avoids standardization, working to form each person into a unique image of God.
- The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art by Erwin Raphael McManus