"Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can a mere financial crisis compare to that? The Generative Mystery cannot go bankrupt. It is not subject to scarcity. We never run out of God."

-- David Spangler

#Love Quotes #Running Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.”
“The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.64, Courier Corporation
“To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc.”
“Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.”

Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.68, Faber & Faber
“Ji-Sung Park is probably not as young as he was when he arrived at Old Trafford all those years ago.”
“The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.”

Source : Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.99, Penguin
“Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!”
“While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.”

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