Quotes of Joan Chittister

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We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.

- Joan Chittister

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“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Eyes not only see but reveal secrets that hidden within our very soul, as You and I stroll in this world in search for our true and better selves." Morco ”

- Jeff Morco

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Growing up in wartorn country like South Sudan wasn't hard and unbearable, but I'm always thankful for the experiences I encountered; cos with them I had realized my full potential to walked in seek of change and make impact on lives of others. ”

- Luka J. Riek

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ If you are really broke. You can’t afford giving up. If you can afford giving up. Then that means you are not broke. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos