"Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand."

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Source : "Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith".

Henri Nouwen

#Real Quotes #Live In The Moment Quotes #Trying Quotes

“We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.”

Source : Alice Childress (2000). “A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich”, p.37, Penguin
“For me, challenging myself with this type of endeavor [ultramarathons] brings the best out in me because even at the darkest, deepest moments when I feel like I can't go on, when I feel like there's no chance I could break the record or much less finish the trail, somehow I find that strength inside of me.”
“I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.”
“If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.87, Northwestern University Press
“If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.”
“It's the things one might have said that fester.”

Source : "A Bill of Divorcement: A Play".
“Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.”
“Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.”

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