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“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
― Myles Munroe

“It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.”
― Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

“Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.”
― Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

“Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.”
― Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

“A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.”
― Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

“Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.”
― Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

“A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.”
― Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

“We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.”
― Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Potential - Discovering the Hidden You

“You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.”
― Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Potential - Discovering the Hidden You

“Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.”
― Old Sculptor Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Potential - Discovering the Hidden You

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

[Essay entitled 'On Christianity', published posthumously]”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles

“Ignorance is a cure for nothing. ”
― W. E. B. Dubois

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.”
― W. E. B. Dubois