"If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient."

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Pema Chodron

#Heart Quotes #Follow Your Heart Quotes

“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.”
“Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.”

Source : Adoniram Judson Gordon (1897). “Yet Speaking: A Collection of Addresses”
“The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “A Girl Named Disaster”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.
“My mentor, [Ingmar] Bergman, when we worked on stage, he said you can't convince a thousand people at the big stage where we were working. You can't convince everybody, but just pick one every night that you perform for and make sure that he or she will have an experience that alters their life in a more positive way. So, just one every night. That's worth all the struggle and screaming.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”
“A company is people â€¦ employees want to knowâ€¦ am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.”
“It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.”
“I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.”

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