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"Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill."
"We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others."
"Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence."
"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
"We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do."
"I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity."
"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."
"To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds."
"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
"Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying."
"If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case."
"One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality."
"It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God."
"If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit."
"Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature"
"I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones."
"It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future...And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task."
"The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces."
"Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere."
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
