Parrottesville Quotes & Sayings

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. — Pliny The Younger

Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel. — Billy Graham

If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst. — Debasish Mridha

Our work and educational institutions reinforce this preference for later over now throughout our lives. In school we focus on the ends - passing the semester, making the grade, or otherwise getting it all behind us - rather than the present-moment experience of actually learning. As employees, we want the work to be over as soon as it begins. Work culture is driven by quotas, billable hours, budgets, and Gantt charts - bottom lines of any sort. The value is always somewhere ahead of you, rather than here right now, in the room with you. We're perpetually looking ahead to a payday or a weekend or some other kind of finish line. Virtually every day of our lives, we're trained to lean towards something we don't have, which essentially trains us to be dissatisfied with where we already are. — David Cain

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs. — Amby Burfoot

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It's like being in love, discovering your best friend. — Elizabeth Wein