It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls.
In plain words
Prizes and shiny things don't feed the heart the way deeper things do.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Middlebury College commencement address, May 2001. Wikiquote sourced section (a different line from the same speech, 'appreciation is a holy thing... we're doing what God does,' was found and excluded here for explicit religious content).
- Middlebury College Commencement Address
- 2001 · Middlebury, Vermont · commencement speech
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