"It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart."

-- James C. Collins

#Heart Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Advice Quotes

“All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”

Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.248, Macmillan
“... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.”

Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.102, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
“For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes the only thing which truly tempts us is the thing which we cannot have.”

Source : Liz Carlyle (2007). “Never Lie to a Lady”, p.384, Simon and Schuster
“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”
“I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.”
“Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about â€˜good thingsâ€™ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of Godâ€™s love.”

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