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“With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.”
― William E. Hordern

“This idea that we ask men to show up and to be vulnerable, to let themselves be seen, but that we really can’t tolerate it, was probably one of the most significant patterns that emerged from my work with men. When I went back and talked to women about this, or I did interviews with both men and women, the response was, ‘it’s true. I ask him to be vulnerable, I ask him to show up, I ask him to show me the fear, but when he does it I am terrified and my response is shut that down immediately, I don’t want to see that’.”
― Brené Brown, Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough

“To say that, on the one hand, God is infinitely good, perfectly just, and inexhaustibly loving, and that, on the other, he has created a world under such terms as oblige him either to impose, or to permit the imposition of, eternal misery on finite rational beings, is simply to embrace a complete contradiction.”
― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

“A belief does not merit unconditional reverence just because it is old or because its proponents claim a divine authority for it that they cannot prove; neither should it be immune to being challenged in terms commensurate to the scandal it poses.”
― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

“In 1902, the sociologist Charles Horton Cooley wrote: “I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Mudita is the principle of taking sympathetic or unselfish joy in the good fortune of others. If I only find joy in my own successes, I’m limiting my joy. But if I can take pleasure in the successes of my friends and family—ten, twenty, fifty people!—I get to experience fifty times the happiness and joy. Who doesn’t want that?”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day