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“Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a diff...”
“If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, ...”
“In order for evil to go down, the good had to fight, suffer and die. We won, but only after suffering a lot of pain and Im sure many have had second thoughts. Despite everything, we had new hope af...”
“Suicidal pain includes the feeling that one has lost all capacity to effect emotional change. The agony is excruciating and looks as if it will never end. There is the feeling of having been beaten...”
“Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as the great gust of agitation which, now and then,...”
“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)”
“Agitation gives birth to creation.”
“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.”
“Listening out for the sound of [his parent's] return kept him suspended in a semi-permanent state of agitation just like an apparently sleeping cat whose ear radar never rests.”
