Min-Quotes: Motivational, Famous and Inspirational Quotes Collection

“There is something you have that all of the most wildly successful people in our history have also had. Twenty four hours in a day.”

“All human creativity is an echo of God’s creativity. When God makes man, he forms him in the dirt, breathes life into him, and sends him out in the world. We’ve been playing in the dirt ever since. Just as God took something he’d made, shaped it, breathed life and meaning into it, and transformed it into something new, so we set about our own business, taking creation, shaping it, and giving it new meaning and purpose. Clay becomes sculpture. Trees become houses. Sounds are arranged in time to become music. Oils, pigments, and canvas are arranged to become paintings. Various metals, glass, and petroleum products become iPhones. The same is true of stories. There is nothing new under the sun, and our stories—no matter how fresh and new they might feel—are all a way of “playing in the dirt,” wrestling with creation, reimagining it, working with it, and making it new. Our stories have a way of fitting into the bigger story of redemption that overshadows all of life and all of history. Because that bigger story is the dirt box in which all the other stories play.”

“What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.”

“I think that must be a lot like how God has it–not to sound as if I think I’m anything like God, mind you. But the whole idea–sitting up there behind glass you can’t be seen through. The person down below looks up and it’s just a reflection of themselves, a mirror is what they see. But behind the glass, somebody who loves you more than anything is watching, and is hoping for the best for you, and cheering you on, and is loving you even when you are doing something you shouldn’t be.”

“The salary or the income they make is only what you see. But that is still not the difference”

“When you are truly happy you will realise that there is nothing to prove to people.”

“Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.”

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit comfortably on your shoulder.”

“When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances may be enough.”

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”

“Emilio appeared with wine before Cal could say anything, and Min beamed at him, grateful for the rescue. “Emilio, my darling. I forgot to mention cake boxes. Two hundred cake boxes.””Already on it,” Emilio said. “Nonna said you’d need them. She said to get four-inch-square boxes for three-inch-square cakes.””I’m getting the boxes,” Min said, nodding. “Sure. Great. Fine. Your grandmother is an angel and you are my hero. And of course, a genius with food.””And you are my favorite customer.” Emilio kissed her cheek and disappeared back into the kitchen.”I love him,” she told Cal.”I noticed,” Cal said. “Been seeing him behind my back, have you?””Yes,” Min said. “We’ve been having conversations about cake.””Whoa,” Cal said. “For you, that’s talking dirty.”

“Where are you going?” she called after me, her voice mocking. “What’s waiting for you out there?” “Nothing!” I shouted at her. “No one!”

“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”