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“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.”
― A Psalm Of Life
― A Psalm Of Life
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
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“We become convinced that everyone around us is concerned with the minutiae of our lives. In a number of decades, you will be gone. Your home will be sold to a new family, your job will be taken by someone else, your kids will be adults, your work will be done....Nobody is thinking about you in the way they are thinking about you, they are only thinking of themselves.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“A superior mind can come up with a lot of foolish questions.”
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“Of all arguments against love, none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as "Careful! This might lead you to suffering."
To my nature, my temperament, yes. Not to my conscience. When I respond to that appeal I seem to myself to be a thousand miles away from Christ. If I am sure of anything I am sure that His teaching was never meant to confirm my congenital preference for safe investments and limited liabilities. I doubt whether there is anything in me that pleases Him less. And who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground-- because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving?”
― The Four Loves
To my nature, my temperament, yes. Not to my conscience. When I respond to that appeal I seem to myself to be a thousand miles away from Christ. If I am sure of anything I am sure that His teaching was never meant to confirm my congenital preference for safe investments and limited liabilities. I doubt whether there is anything in me that pleases Him less. And who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground-- because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving?”
― The Four Loves
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