Purpose391
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
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Purpose392
“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”
Action393
“We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.”
Growth394
“Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.”
Creativity395
“Human subtlety … will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
Creativity396
“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”
Calm397
“A thinking man’s greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.”
Action398
“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.”
Creativity399
“The blood jet is poetry, / There is no stopping it.”
Growth400
“People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.”