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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ↗

— Andre Gide

#combat #direct #easier #labors #lead

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#cultures #destiny #fault #find #i

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#another #anxious #become #discipline #important

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#best friend #friend #husband #inspiration #intellectual

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. ↗

— William Godwin

#early #lessons #regulated #their #years

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#i #i think #off #only #patients

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#care #come #end #just #many

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. ↗