"Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are."

-- Katrina Kenison

#Purpose Quotes #World Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.”

Source : "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.
“Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.”

Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.221, The Overlook Press
“(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman would not have been so maimed, and neither would the world, (...)”
“People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.”
“These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.”
“It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.”
“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jennifer Niven from Jun 29, 2016
“There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.”

Source : Swami Prabhavananda (2015). “The Sermon On the Mount According to Vedanta”, p.67, Lulu Press, Inc

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