Epictetus People Who Uplift Quotes & Sayings

Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend! — C.J. Milbrandt

Jesus plus nothing equals everything - and everything minus Jesus equals nothing. — Tullian Tchividjian

If there is a constructive way forward for Christians in the midst of our broken but also beautiful cultures, it will require us to recover these two biblical postures of cultivation and creation. And that recovery will involve revisiting the biblical story itself, where we discover that God is more intimately and eternally concerned with culture than we have yet come to believe. — Andy Crouch

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. — John Travolta

Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006 ... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production. — Christopher Flavin

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used. — Tillie Olsen

Men might rule the world, but women created life, made it grow within them. Without the womb there was no kingdom to govern, and a king was as useless as the next man. — Autumn Dawn

Delicious Autumn! — George Eliot

I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes me a defeatist, but I'd prefer to think of myself as realist. — Cassia Leo

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become. — E.F. Schumacher

Being alone is better than being your whore. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. — Epictetus

Growing up, coming to terms with, and living through the complications of Diabetes. — Paul Cathcart

Sometimes we have to face things, face people, face situations in life that we don't like to deal with," he said. "It can feel like everybody is out to get you. That's when you have to refuse to succumb, make people realize you are a force - but you also have to give and take in these situations. — Duff McKagan

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here. — Kirstie Alley