"Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish.Â Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature"

-- Thomas Merton

#Love Is Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Our Love Quotes

“We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.”
“A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.”
“I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.”
“In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.”
“Perhaps that is what life is all aboutâ€”the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.”

Source : Garth Stein (2014). “A Sudden Light: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being”

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