"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it"

-- Gautama Buddha

#Monday Quotes #Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.”
“Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.49, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!”
“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest printâ€”the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.”
“I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.”
“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip,--the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal on his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! hath she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”
“My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.”

Source : Margaret Edson (2014). “Wit: A Play”, p.44, Macmillan

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