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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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Personal Development
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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Personal Development
"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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Personal Development
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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Personal Development
"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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Personal Development
"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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Personal Development
"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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Personal Development
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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Personal Development
"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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Personal Development
"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."
Inspirational
"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."
Act
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
Religion
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
Leadership
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
Choice
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
Art
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
Art
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
Writing
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
Marriage
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
Marriage
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