"There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be--not just always do."

-- Elizabeth Lesser

#Makeup Quotes #Creating Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.”
“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.”

Source : Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco
“In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.”
“While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.”
“Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.”
“The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.”

Source : Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”
“There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which is tighter than the prison of hawa (desire) and there is no bond/fetter more strong than the bond of desire. How, then, will a heart which is captivated, imprisoned and fettered travel unto Allah and the Home of the Hereafter?”
“The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.”

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