"If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it."

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Source : Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

Peter McWilliams

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“So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.”
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
“Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.”
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”
“There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
“Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.”

Source : VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”
“The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.”
“Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.”

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