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Victor Hugo: “If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.”
“Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words. —RAINER MARIA RILKE”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“We should employ our passions in the service of life,” Sir Richard Steele wrote, “not spend life in the service of our passions.”
― Following the Path: The Search for a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Joy
― Following the Path: The Search for a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Joy
“Gregory of Nyssa said, ‘Ideas create idols; only wonder leads to knowing.’ ”
― Toward the Gleam
― Toward the Gleam
“In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.”
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“life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.”
― Following the Path: The Search for a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Joy
― Following the Path: The Search for a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Joy
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