"Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility."

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Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.13, Harvard Business Press

Randy Komisar

#Live Life Quotes #Order Quotes #Fragility Quotes

“Nothing great happens when you hold back.”
“O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”

Source : Francis Scott Key, Roger Brooke Taney (1857). “Poems”, p.33
“I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins
“My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.”
“Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls....”
“Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.”
“A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.”
“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.”

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