"Passion means making the choice to do that for which we can make the greatest difference. It means saying no to opportunities that may be good but not the best. It means that the best path is not always the easiest path."

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Source : Thom S. Rainer (2010). “Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap”, p.197, Harper Collins

Thom S. Rainer

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“MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”
“The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.”
“I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.”
“What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.”
“I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.”
“to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.”
“For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...”
“If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.”

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