"Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others."

-- Eknath Easwaran

#Knowing Quotes #Joy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”

Source : "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
“The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.”
“The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”
“When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.”
“Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.”

Source : Jim Whittaker (2013). “A Life on the Edge, Anniversary Edition: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond”, p.18, Mountaineers Books
“The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' address at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities in Saskatoon, March 13, 1951.
“I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is a friend and who has made documentaries about controversial Middle Eastern terrorists has had trouble at customs when she travels internationally - but nothing like that has happened to me.”

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