"We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way."

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Source : "Approaching Integrity" by Mark Nepo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

Mark Nepo

#Dream Quotes #Effort Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.”
“Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.”
“There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.”
“The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.”
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
“Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.”
“I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.211, Penguin

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