"It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier."

-- Clarence Clemons

#Important Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications
“Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.”
“I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.”
“I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.”
“I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time....”
“If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.”
“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”
“I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.”

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