"Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on."

-- Henri Nouwen

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“If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
“When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.”
“A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?”

Source : "The Messenger at Night". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.”
“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”
“My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.”

Source : "Kathryn Minshew: Helping Women Find Their Muse". Interview with Nusha Balyan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.
“Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.”

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