John Verdon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.
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The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.
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The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.
-- John Verdon
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
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Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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