J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

'Karwaan' was meant for me.

I'm just a young girl trying to fulfill the purpose that's been placed in my heart to do.

Everyone's journey is their own journey. Everyone gets to where they are supposed to be. Everyone's journey works out the way they're supposed to.

The two most important days in your life are the day your are born and the day you find out why.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.