"Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'"

-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Sorry Quotes #People Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.”
“In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.”

Source : Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.245, Random House
“It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.”
“Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.”
“Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... â™¥”
“I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.”

Source : "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer". Interview with Jen Bowden, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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