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“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
“We spent our lives making livings.”
“If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right.”
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
“I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.”
“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
“It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.”
“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”
“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”
“Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little bette...”
“When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, fo...”
“If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ul...”
“Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.”
“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, ...”
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to kee...”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
“Only super-efforts count.”
“My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.”
