"And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love."

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Sue Monk Kidd

#Lilies Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.”
“It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.”
“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”
“Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.”
“Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.”
“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.”
“In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.”

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“To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.”

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