Chorale Catholique Quotes & Sayings

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from. — Miles Anthony Smith

He looked personable enough, not exactly a great thinker, but definitely the kind of profile you wouldn't mind seeing on your small change. — Terry Pratchett

...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams. — Karleen Koen

Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain. — Robin Hobb

A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for. — Phil Pringle

Extroverts are not superior to introverts, and vice versa. We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in. — Michaela Chung

On so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast. His mother, I know, went to his door — Henry James

Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all. She wished with all her heart Combe Magna was not so near Cleveland; but it did not signify, for it was a great deal too far off to visit; she hated him so much that she was resolved never to mention his name again, and she should tell everybody she saw, how good-for-nothing he was. — Jane Austen

Treasure your dream. — Manuela George-Izunwa

Life is a dream and autumn is a dream within dream! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society. — Peter F. Hamilton