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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
“Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.”
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If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.”
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“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
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“A deep distress hath humanised my soul.”
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“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
The Inklings
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The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, between the 1930s and the 1960s. Its most re ...more
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