"The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)..."

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Source : Chris Bohjalian (2010). “Secrets of Eden”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

Chris Bohjalian

#Calling Quotes #Answers Quotes #Levels Quotes

“I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.65
“Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.”
“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.”

Source : Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.148, Vintage
“Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.”
“Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new”
“Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”
“Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy”

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