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"Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human - -strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others?...Will you love me even when I disappoint you?"
"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal."
"A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys."
"Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together."
"Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered."
"What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance."
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility."
"It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course."
"If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed."
"Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life."
"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."
"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."
"A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing."
"Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation."
"The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort."
"It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts."
"The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day."
"Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort."
"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"
"Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday."
