“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God’s assignment to serve others.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“By relentless and constant experimentation in their daily work, they were able to continually increase capacity, often without adding any new equipment… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle… — Joan Claybrook Copy Share Image
Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
“I mean,’ said Marion happily, ‘it’s a continent in chains, well, isn’t it?’ (Tribune, thought Anna; or possibly the Daily Worker.) ‘And… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Ownership shatters ecology. For the land to survive, for us to survive, it must cease to be property. It cannot continue to… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“As an exercise bicycling is superior to most, if not all, others at our command. It takes one into the outdoor air;… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The laws of attraction are similar to a magical spell. Think about what's necessary to you, then let it go. Focus on… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to make a living by simply watching light? Monet did. Vermeer did. I believe Vincent did too. They painted… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God’s vision of peace may increase.” — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For the sacrament to be a spiritually cleansing experience each week, we need to prepare ourselves before coming to sacrament meeting. We… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image