Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created life, and essential to it, being its self operant, is growth. The larger start you make, the less room you leave for life to extend itself. You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a life-process, self-extending, and subserving the whole. Small beginnings with slow growings have time to root themselves thoroughly--I do not mean in place nor yet in social regard, but in wisdom. Such even prosper by failures, for their failures are not too great to be rectified without injury to the original idea.
George MacDonaldTags: inspiration encouragement
Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill them; even without help I wish and hope to fulfill them.
Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you. Do not mislead me, do not be glad that I have got lost, do not shout out joyfully: “Look at him! He said he was going home, but there he is crawling into a bog!” No, do not gloat, but give me your help and support.
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You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.
Roz IngaTags: inspirational mistakes growth life-lessons encouragement
Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: goals success inspirational-quotes encouragement achieving richelle richelle-goodrich
Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
Rodolfo CostaTags: optimism success encouragement positive-thinking positive-attitude
I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.
Phoebe StoneTags: humor inspirational encouragement
Love is something worth suffering for...
Scott HahnTags: inspirational suffering encouragement catholic
At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.
Scott HahnTags: inspirational suffering encouragement catholic
[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.
Scott HahnTags: inspirational encouragement catholic discipline holiness
If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.
Scott HahnTags: inspirational encouragement catholic complaining
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