"In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might"

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Source : Pat Parker (1999). “An Expanded Edition of Movement in Black”

Alfred Armand Montapert

#Goal Quotes #Mind Quotes #Cost Quotes

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.”

Source : 'Daisy' (1913)
“You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.”
“You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.”
“I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?”
“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”
“But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world”
“It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.”
“Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.”

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