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«Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God»
Author: Evelyn Underhill
| About:
Christianity,
History
| Keywords:
most unattractive, pressure, retrospect, tasks, unattractive
«Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.»
«Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.»
«High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
chopping, drawing, Fire and Water, high technology, high water, performing, primordial, spring water, tasks, technology, wood
«Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ember, embers, fires, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, spiritless, stirred, tasks
«For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
for one, preparation, proof, tasks, test, The Ultimate, ultimate
«Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Housework
| Keywords:
clean, day after day, endless, housework, over and over, repetition, repetitions, Sisyphus, soiled, tasks, The Clean, torture, torturing
«Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.»
«Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.»
«A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
disappointment, distasteful, flush, flushed, flushes, resolves, routine, sinking, sinking feeling, tasks, textbook, textbooks
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