"At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing."

-- Shirley Hazzard

#Expectations Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky.”
“One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.”
“But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.”
“It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition.”
“I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.”
“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.”

Source : Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books
“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”
“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.”

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