"Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?"

-- Parker J. Palmer

#Positive Quotes #Live Life Quotes #Want Quotes

“My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.”
“Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.”
“Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.”
“The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.294, Macmillan
“Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.”
“Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1936). “Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis”
“I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.”

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