"Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions."

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James W. Fowler

#Faith Quotes #Giving Quotes #Goal Quotes

“The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.”
“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.”

Source : "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse". Book by Stephen Kotkin, p. 58, 2001.
“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....”
“Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!”
“If Youku had adopted YouTubes business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.”
“Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.”
“On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.”
“An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?”

Source : "Happy Birthday Francis Ford Coppola! Watch His Wild Early Movie ‘Dementia 13’ For Free" by Emily Buder, www.indiewire.com. April 7, 2014.

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