"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it."

-- Ayn Rand

#Expression Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.”

Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.42, New York : Howe & Bates
“Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.”
“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
“Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.”
“The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.”
“I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.”

Source : Jonathan Ames (2012). “The Extra Man”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
“But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.”

Source : Owen Wister (2009). “The Virginian (Cortero Pantheon Edition)”, p.328, Fireship Press
“There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.”

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