"If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices."

-- Jean Vanier

#Choices Quotes #Effort Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.”
“When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.”

Source : Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.127, Harvard University Press
“Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.”
“It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.”
“Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudesâ€¦ Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of one's work. It cuts down ability. A man cannot get the highest quality of efficiency into his work when his mind is troubled. The mental faculties must have perfect freedom before they will give out their best. A troubled brain cannot think clearly, vigorously, and logically.”

Source : Orison S. Marden (2017). “Pushing To The Front”, p.776, Noodle-Doo Studios
“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”
“If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.”
“This is why people cry at the movies: because everybodyâ€™s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”

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