"A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground."

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Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

Ernest Shackleton

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“A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”
“He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing”
“Silence is so freaking loud”
“The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.”
“Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.”

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.181, Hachette UK
“Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.”
“when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns”
“And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.”

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