Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
Interpretation
Focus on your aspirations instead of your fears.
This quote encourages individuals to direct their attention toward their ambitions and desires rather than being held back by their anxieties and doubts. It suggests that a positive outlook and a commitment to pursuing one's dreams can lead to a more fulfilling life, allowing hope to guide decisions instead of fear-driven choices.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage students to pursue their goals despite challenges.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.
I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.
Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.
Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
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