Life Quote by Winifred Gallagher

““Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.””

Winifred Gallagher

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“I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is.”

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