"When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking."

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Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.88, Multnomah

Joshua Harris

#Missing Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Tomorrow Quotes

“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”

Source : Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.206
“The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use synthesizers as their main instrument and take it seriously was probably Silver Apples. And they sure didn't know what they were doing, and they sure don't sound like anything else.”
“We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.”
“Here in America, people are very professional.”
“I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.”
“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”
“I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That's not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It's not needed. I'm already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.”
“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”

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