“But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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