"True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition."

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Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books

Ryan Holiday

#Ambition Quotes #Humility Quotes #Resilience Quotes

“Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?”
“...O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain...”
“I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.”
“Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.”
“I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.”
“Follow your passion, weâ€™re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? Itâ€™s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north â€” and itâ€™s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.”
“More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan
“Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.”

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