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David Whyte Quotes: To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
         

To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.


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What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?



Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.



The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.



Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.



To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.



Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.



Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.



Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.



I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.



The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.





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She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.



You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask

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Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.

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We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.



Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

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If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.



I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.



In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.



Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

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I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

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