"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."

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Source : FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

Frederick Buechner

#Life Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Pain Quotes

“Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.”

Source : Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“It was not war, it was murder.”

Source : Daniel Harvey Hill (1899). “North Carolina”
“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
“You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'”
“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.”
“The important talent is the talent to develop one's talent.”
“I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.”

Source : "I Can Fly" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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