"Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best."

-- Jim Henson

#Second Best Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.”
“The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth, prosperity; chasing a good time, chasing the social club, chasing where the action's happening, chasing the good music and the good times. But few people are out there chasing God, and truly going hard after Him, and truly making the sacrifices in their life and cleaning their hands in such a way and working to have a pure heart that they might actually ascend that hill of the Lord and they might actually commune with God in a way that few people do and few people know about.”
“You figure out how to create opportunities to make music, and then, if you take care of the music, audiences will come around. They also might leave. What matters is the moment: the moment of making music, with and for and among others, and what that offers to those people in that moment. They might never see me again; they might never learn my name. But it might still be something they carry with them.”
“I must admit that many humans have a strong need to perceive life as in some sense benign and potentially happy. It is also evident that this need cannot be met if we do not experience a salvific change in consciousness, which allows us to perceive a greater, happier reality beyond the world of matter and sense.”

Source : "The Rebirth of Gnosticism: An Interview with Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller". New Dawn Magazine, No.143 (Mar-Apr 2014), beforeitsnews.com. May 20, 2015.
“If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.34, Macmillan
“Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.”
“You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.”
“Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.”

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