Quotations
"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike
"The prize for doing great work is that you get to do more of it."
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How does C. S. Lewis do that, every paragraph is a book https://t.co/Th1Fchsa3k
C. S. Lewis
As GK Galbraith said "The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."
The end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Have you tried Schopenhauer?
He's my fave:
"A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone."
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy.” - Christopher Dawson
still one of my favorite lines of all time:
and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
- charles bukowski