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"This book needs to get better. I can't have spent 27 francs and lugged it all the way from Switzerland for nothing." — Mar 10, 2025 12:13PM
"This book needs to get better. I can't have spent 27 francs and lugged it all the way from Switzerland for nothing." — Mar 10, 2025 12:13PM
“For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved.”
― Lucky Jim
― Lucky Jim
“I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
“I am nothing but a dilettante,
a dilettante in painting, in poetry, in music, and several other of the
so-called unprofitable arts.
Above all else I am a dilettante in life
Up to the present I have lived as I have painted and written poetry.
I never
got far beyond the preparation, the plan, the first act, the first stanza.
There are people like that who begin everything, and never finish anything.
I am
such a one.”
― Venus in Furs
a dilettante in painting, in poetry, in music, and several other of the
so-called unprofitable arts.
Above all else I am a dilettante in life
Up to the present I have lived as I have painted and written poetry.
I never
got far beyond the preparation, the plan, the first act, the first stanza.
There are people like that who begin everything, and never finish anything.
I am
such a one.”
― Venus in Furs
“no matter who we are, life is going to put us through the changes we need to go through. The question is: Are we willing to use this force for our transformation? I saw that even very intense situations don’t have to leave psychological scars, if we are willing to process our changes at a deeper level.”
― The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection
― The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection
“You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not. How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them, for they are your passport to freedom and to love.”
― The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
― The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
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