"When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are."

-- Eckhart Tolle

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“I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.”
“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.”
“Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another.”
“Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.”
“Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.”

Source : US Golf Association Interview, www.usga.org. August 11, 2012.
“I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.”
“Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.”

Source : "Grace Coddington: Creative Indeed" by Julie Kavanagh, www.1843magazine.com. Spring 2011.
“When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.16, Random House

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