"God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His"

-- Max Lucado

#Successful Quotes #Goal Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.”
“If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they don't really want to watch real life. They don't want to sit and watch a security camera. There's a strong gravity in all of us as viewers - even in myself now and then - to want to see real life depicted. But you're looking for it in the wrong places. It's in little allegories, in something removed.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically; they're poor; and there's a limit to what the government can do there without wasting a lot of resources. Developing the south east may mean decamping a large part of its population. But the thing that will improve the lot of the Kurds more than anything else will be the stabilization of Iraq in the first place, because then the Turkish southeast stops being a dead end. It can become a bridge, with trade flowing in both directions.”
“Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.12, North Atlantic Books
“Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...”
“While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.”
“I've always been interested in the outsider.”
“To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.”

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