"In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today."

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Source : "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

Karen Kain

#School Quotes #People Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“The purpose of life is life.”
“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”

Source : Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.15, Shambhala Publications
“Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.”

Source : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.136
“When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie.”
“You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.”
“Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.”
“There's been no top authority saying what ***** does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.”
“Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.”

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