"For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club."
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"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
"No man is a success in business unless he loves his work."
"One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it."
"Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance"
"We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused...You have been described, do not accept any other description!"
"We suffer each other to have each other a while."
"Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light."
"Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs."
"Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time."
"The harmonica has musical wind, and is the breath of soul. It’s like a sad, lonely I love you lost in the breeze."
"Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie."
"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."
"Writers are the exorcists of their own demons."
"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience."
"Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn."
"The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger wayWhere many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say"
"I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it."
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