"According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Pain Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.”

Source : Joel Dorman Steele (1872). “Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry”, p.223
“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.”

Source : Susanna Wesley (1997). “Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings”, p.241, Oxford University Press
“If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.”
“Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1967). “Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette”
“In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.”
“All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.”

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