"What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?"

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Donald Fagen

#Transformation Quotes #Worthwhile Quotes #Given Quotes

“I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.”
“It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.”

Source : Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.56, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.”
“Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.”
“Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.”
“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
“Parties don't thrill me. I like sitting at home with a tub of Chunky Monkey ice cream watching Big Brother or Friends.”
“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”

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