"Without giving up hopeâ€”that thereâ€™s somewhere better to be, that thereâ€™s someone better to beâ€”we will never relax with where we are or who we are."

--

Pema Chodron

#Giving Up Quotes #Giving Quotes #Relax Quotes

“I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them. (Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)”
“So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.”
“This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.”

Source : "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". NBR Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.
“It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.”
“You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.”

Source : R. T. Kendall (2008). “The Parables of Jesus: A Guide to Understanding and Applying the Stories Jesus Told”, p.53, Baker Books
“Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so.”
“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.”

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