Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
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Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Give light, and people will find the way...
I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.
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