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Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield, born in 1943, is a renowned author known for his historical and war novels. His works are highly appreciated for their deep historical insights and vivid depiction of war scenes. more

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“I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures.”

“You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.”

“It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.”