"We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for"

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Source : Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.16, Multnomah

Mark Batterson

“We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.”

Source : "Western-Leaning Ukrainian Takes the Presidential Oath". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2005.
“One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.”

Source : "Is ‘I Do’ Supposed To Be Forever?" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.
“I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.”
“It's not going to be easy to change things.”
“Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britainâ€™s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to set this up as a measure of success. Protecting the credit rating will not be easy The pace of fiscal consolidation will be co-ordinated with monetary policy. And we will protect Britain's credit rating and international reputation.”
“It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.”

Source : "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame”
“It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.”

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