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My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
Narcissus and Goldmund
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
Kafka on the Shore
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity
In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after
For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low
He may well win the race that runs by himself
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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