"The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come."

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Source : Commencement Address at Rice University in Houston, May 14, 2011.

David Brooks

#Inspirational Quotes #Graduation Quotes #Needs Quotes

“A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.”

Source : Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.67, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.”
“Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.”
“Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.”

Source : Charles Bradlaugh, John Watts, Anthony Collins (2012). “Half-Hours with the Freethinkers”, p.69, The Floating Press
“I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.”
“This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.”
“If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.”
“Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.”

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