"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.”
“The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.”
“An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.”
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

Source : Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).
“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.”
“In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.”
“Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.”

Source : Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.35, Wayne State University Press
“The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.”

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