“The formula to end burnout is straightforward: maximize your passion and minimize your void.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“When someone compromises your mindset principle, your “Grr!” reflex automatically kicks in. Just like your physiological reflexes, this psychological reflex serves and protects by safeguarding a virtue of humanity.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Purpose is heartfelt, benevolent, and personally meaningful to you. It’s a state of being that you desire for yourself, yet you recognize its importance in the world, and you want it for others too.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Purpose isn’t what you do. Purpose is your reason for doing something. It’s the why behind what you do.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”
Source: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
“While your passion gives you energy, your void sucks the life force out of you like a vampire, leaving you feeling depleted and disengaged.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The watertight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart: men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help. To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the river Arno.”
Source: A Room with a View
“But we fear him for you, dear. You are so young and inexperienced, you have lived among such nice people, that you cannot realise what men can be — how they can take a brutal pleasure in insulting a woman whom her sex does not protect and rally round.”
Source: A Room with a View
“She only felt the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”
Source: A Room with a View