Inspiring Words
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
-Mark Twain
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle."The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours" -Ayn Rand
"When anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent."-St. John of the Cross
"Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily." -Abebe Bikila
For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, 'The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.' -Acts 4:11.
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."—1 Corinthians 13:11
"Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten" -???
"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.” -Sir Philip Sidney
-Mark Twain
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle."The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours" -Ayn Rand
"When anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent."-St. John of the Cross
"Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily." -Abebe Bikila
For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, 'The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.' -Acts 4:11.
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."—1 Corinthians 13:11
"Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten" -???
"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.” -Sir Philip Sidney
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Follow Christ, not Ayn Rand (an atheist). Put your trust in God. The \"hero\" is your awareness of, and obedience to, He who suffered humiliation, rejection, and ultimate horrific suffering and death for you, for me, for us. The \"spark\" is your soul, given to you and created by the God who rules the universe, whose thought contains us all, every single one, and the entire of creation. It\'s not true that \"twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn\'t do than by the ones you did do\". When a door opens, it\'s true that walking through it is often the best choice but one must use discernment. I always said that when I got old I didn\'t want to regret the opportunities I chose NOT to take but some of those doors were wrong, I know that now but there\'s no such thing as \"too late\" in the eyes of God. \"Explore, Dream, Discover\" yes but with integrity, ethics, honesty, charity, humility and an awareness that I ABSOLUTELY KNOW TO BE TRUE: you WILL someday be face to Face and you WILL see the suffering you caused (at the time with no intention to harm) as well as those many times (hopefully) that your choice of behavior made someone\'s life easier, happier, more secure, and most of those times you won\'t even KNOW you\'ve done it. Trust God, He is REAL, I have personal experiences so vast that I could fill books. Remember that to love God before all others and then to love your neighbor as yourself (which means you MUST LOVE YOURSELF as God loves you) is the Rule of Life.