The defining moment in my life that shifted the way I was thinking...and brought me to ubuntu.
Great question. Tough to answer.
In the sense of living and breathing and working and playing.
Just so we're clear, these notes are being imported from my blog: http://hopefulafrica.blogspot.com. I post all things inspiring here, as well as trip news & updates. When I leave, it'll be important to me that when I update my blog, it will update facebook & emails so that I can stay in touch with everyone on the trip.
So, here are some of my favouite book quotes that are posted, where else, Oprah.com:
On the importance of being true to yourself:
"Do not let yourself be bothered with the inconsequential. One only has so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else." — Louis L'amour, Ride the River
On the importance of books:
"So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone." — Roald Dahl, Matilda
On our differences:
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest of human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
And then these I just looove:
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
"The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love."
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
"But lifting a person's heart — now that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters." — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
"If anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again." — William P. Young, The Shack
"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists."
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?" — Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
So, here are some of my favouite book quotes that are posted, where else, Oprah.com:
On the importance of being true to yourself:
"Do not let yourself be bothered with the inconsequential. One only has so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else." — Louis L'amour, Ride the River
On the importance of books:
"So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone." — Roald Dahl, Matilda
On our differences:
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest of human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
And then these I just looove:
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
"The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love."
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
"But lifting a person's heart — now that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters." — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
"If anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again." — William P. Young, The Shack
"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists."
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?" — Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
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