"I suffer from life and from other people. I canâ€™t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful â€” only then do I find myself and feel comforted."

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Source : Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

Fernando Pessoa

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“Leadership is action, not position”
“I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination. The people who I've lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process - it's not a relief.”
“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”

Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.110, Random House
“My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.”
“Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. Theyâ€™re inseparable.”

Source : Jim Stengel (2012). “Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies”, p.1, Random House
“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”
“I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”

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