“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea”
“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something”
“Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square”
“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid”
“We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued”
“Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else”
“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains”