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Life Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
- The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it…
- It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
- We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We…
- We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
- I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
- Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
- Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we…
- The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such…
- The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after…
- Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle