"O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!"

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Guy Wetmore Carryl

#Christmas Quotes #Tasks Quotes #World Quotes

“To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.”
“Never forget why you're really doing what you're doing.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.31, Penguin
“A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.”
“Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.”

Source : "Where I Learned To Read" by Salvatore Scibona, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2011.
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”

Source : Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”
“At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.”

Source : "Answer Man: Gio Gonzalez talks getting traded, Cy Young, Strasburg shutdown and the Chevy Geo Big League Stew". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. October 6, 2012.
“Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.”
“When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.”

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