Soul is a feeling, not a colour. Talent is a God-given gift, not a category and out of the box is that magical place where true talent goes to live, thrive and breathe.
-Lionel Richie
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You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind… That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.
-Franz Kafka
“Quiet leadership” is not an oxymoron
– Mahatma Gandhi
We can not control when emotions will or will not show up but we can learn to not let them control us.
– Joyce Meyer
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
– Anaïs Nin
Your work is go…
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle.
– Steve Jobs
When you are pa…
When you are passionate and you like what you’re doing, when it is what you want to do, not what you have to do, you always do it better because you’re doing it with love.
– John Paul Dejoria
Where does a st…
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.
– Nicholas Sparks, A Bend in the Road
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
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