"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

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Source : "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

Leo Tolstoy

#Inspirational Quotes #Change Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

Source : Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”
“Now thereâ€™s a joy inside I canâ€™t contain But even perfect days can end in rain And though itâ€™s pouring down I see You through the clouds Shining on my face.”
“To say Iâ€™m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
“If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.”
“When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”
“Everything is so convenient in New York,”
“The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christmas is a divine person. That makes all the difference in the world.”
“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.”

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