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David Whyte Quotes: I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
         

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.


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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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Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.



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