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The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure… — Rebecca Solnit
Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it… — Martin Buber
But do you remember Gandalfâ€™s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met… — Walker Percy
You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted.… — Brandon Sanderson
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph… — Dorothy Thompson
Dolgan: â€™Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when â€˜tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know… — Raymond E. Feist
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided… — Terry Pratchett
I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't… — Janette Rallison
Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world.… — Alan Moore
no project is completed until its objective has been achieved. — Paulo Coelho
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of… — Robert M. Pirsig
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens… — Christopher Hitchens
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. — Johann Sebastian Bach
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. — Max Weber
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) — Swami Satchidananda
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a… — Paulo Coelho
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. — J. Oswald Sanders
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing… — Jeffrey Archer

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