Act well your given
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you. Epictetus
Resignation
Dare to look up
Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest. Epictetus
Time brought resignation and
Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. Emily Bronte
It may well be
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment. Elie Wiesel
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections. Edwin Meese
I think my resignation
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed. Eduard Shevardnadze
The present age has
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then. Friedrich Schiller
You tell me: \’Life
You tell me: ‘Life is hard to bear.’ But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening? Friedrich Nietzsche
Assuming that we have
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. Friedrich Nietzsche
Really unreflective people are
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who … Read more