Imagine

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on... But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

by C.S. Lewis 

Also in p 166 of All or Nothing by Mark Batterson

Motivations

"We become what we think about." "Are you going to sit back and wait?" Do what you like, seek what you love. Don't stop till you get there. Life shouldn't be a compromise. Priceless reminders about life I put on replay nonstop. 1. "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful" Eric Thomas 2. What if Money was no object? Alan Watts 3. Human Culture by Alan Watts 4. Change your Life

Those moments

1. Waking up walking in the early morning sunrise before anyone else is up to feel the fresh air difference. 2. The happy film that made me smile. 3. That couple's story that reminded me what true love is. 4. That moment when someone made me laugh out loud today. 5. That book that made me cry in happines to realize how much more life has to offer if we really tried. 6. That moment when you realize you made the best decision in your life.

Another day

I live this moment as the last. 

There is only us. 

There is only this. 

Forget regret. 

Or life is your's to miss. 

No other road. 

No other way. 

No day but today.

- Rent

Unknown

"The most important part of the story is the piece of it you don't know."

Barbara Kingsolver
The Lacuna

The cost

" Fundamentally, a decision to do one thing implies a decision not to do something else."

Analysis for Public Decisions, E.S. Quade p 118

[Book] The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"Does it trouble you," he inquired, "to make your living by disrupting the lives of others?" "We just value," I replied. "We do not decide whether to buy or to sell, or indeed what happens to a company after we have valued it." He nodded; he lit a cigarette and took a sip from his glass of wine. Then he asked, "Have you heard of the janissaries?" "No," I said. "They were Christian boys," he explained, "captured by the Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in a Muslim army, at that time the greatest army in the world. They were ferocious and utterly loyal: they had fought to erase their own civilizations, so they had nothing else to turn to."

- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, p 151