"She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case."

-- Jacqueline Winspear

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“No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.”

Source : Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.90
“Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
“Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect if they do not express themselves in practical love which has real effects.”
“Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!”
“When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.”
“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”
“Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who wonâ€™t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It canâ€™t help but be that. But more importantly, if youâ€™re honest about who you are, youâ€™ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope.”

Source : "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". Speech for BAFTA, www.bafta.org. 30 September 2011.
“Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.”

Source : Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.16, Hazelden Publishing

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