"Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power...."

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Janet Morris

#Ambition Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.”
“Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.”
“...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfâ€”be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himselfâ€”by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to loveâ€”the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”
“Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.”
“The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.86
“When you're have known to do voice-overs for Justice League or Legion of Super Heroes or DC/Marvel, you're kind of on that radar. When you do a ton of Star Treks over your career, then you're kind of on that radar in a way. But that doesn't mean you're going to continue getting that type of work. It just means when you do that type of work, you're more firmly tied to that genre.”
“...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.”
“Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.”

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