"I can only answer the question â€˜What am I to do?â€™ if I can answer the prior question â€˜Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?â€™"

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Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.250, A&C Black

Alasdair MacIntyre

#Stories Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.”

Source : Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press
“Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!”
“When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.”
“I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.56, A&C Black
“Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.”
“Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.”
“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.”

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