"It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is."

-- Sinead O'Connor

#Purpose Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Hard Quotes

“The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.”
“Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic.Â Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.Â Be brave, be brave.”

Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.55, Vintage
“We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.19
“I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.”

Source : Interview with Gabriella for NY Rock Magazine, October 1, 1999.
“Those who have experienced a great deal of violence or committed a great deal of violence themselves, those who are existing in their own world of sadness and malevolence, essentially those are the ones that are most prone to possession. You don't just walk down the street and suddenly you get possessed. It creeps up on you.”
“Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.”
“Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.”
“Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.”

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