"Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community."

-- Jean Vanier

#Exercise Quotes #Community Quotes #Divine Quotes

“Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.”
“People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.”
“It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.”
“I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.”
“The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again. The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again, And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind.”
“Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.”

Source : "Dylan Walsh Talks ‘Unforgettable’ Role, Working With Poppy Montgomery" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.
“I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.”

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