"You canâ€™t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first."

“Musicâ€™s a wood you walk through.”
“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.”
“You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.”
“I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.”
“'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”
“The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.”
“If you think youâ€™re average, then youâ€™ll be average. If you think youâ€™re ordinary, then youâ€™ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.”
“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.”

Source : Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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