"It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures."

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Source : Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

Robert Greene

#Goal Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #Height Quotes

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”
“ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.”

Source : "Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired After Mocking Steve Gleason, ALS During ‘Mayhem In the AM’ Show" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2013.
“Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.”
“To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!”
“I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.”
“It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.”
“It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.”
“Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.”

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