"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it"

-- Henri Nouwen

#Life Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Doe Quotes

“When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.”
“If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.”
“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin
“All homosexuals should be castrated.”
“I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.”
“Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what has variously been called collective consciousness or, as theologians have termed it, the Holy Spirit.”

Source : Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.28, Harper Collins
“Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.”

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