"The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul."

-- Christina Baldwin

#Soul Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.”
“The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.”
“Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
“News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.”
“To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.”
“It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.”
“I am a Christian, but I also dont really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.”
“Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.”

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