"Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others."

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Source : "A Century of Enthusiasm". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2007.

Carson Cistulli

#Effort Quotes #Pursue Quotes

“We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.”

Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2011). “Totem Magic: Dance of the Shapeshifter”, p.183, Crossing Press
“My kids give me the balance to live right.”
“His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.”
“I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.”

Source : "Her brilliant career" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2004.
“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.”
“Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.”
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.19, Psychology Press
“Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.”

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