"No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it."

-- Elif Safak

#Needs Quotes #Looks Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win.”
“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”

Source : FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from May 09, 2015
“Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.”

Source : Doug Fields (2009). “Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A Personal and Practical Guide to Starting Right”, p.82, Zondervan/Youth Specialties
“I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.”
“Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.”
“Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.”
“The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.115, Faber & Faber
“But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.”

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