“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”
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“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.”
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“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
― A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
― A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
― Thoughts in Solitude
― Thoughts in Solitude
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