"The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away."

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Source : David Viscott (2003). “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”, McGraw Hill Professional

David Viscott

#Life Quotes #Giving Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.”

Source : "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.
“Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”
“Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.”

Source : "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.
“Don't be fooled by your own wisdom”
“Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”
“I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.”

Source : "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.
“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”

Source : "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.
“that darkest of syllables, death.”

Source : Mary McMullen (1987). “The Other Shoe”, Jove Publications

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