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“It’s possible to live in something like happiness without even knowing it. There comes an instant when you recognize it exists. And in that moment it no longer does.”

Book:The Rest Is Silence

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“If,"said the Dowager, after a pregnant silence," I had ever dared to speak so to my grandmother, I should have been soundly whipped and confined to my bedchamber on bread-and-water for a sennight!" The gravity vanished from Cressy's face. "no, would you, Ma'am? How very brave your parents must have been!”

Humour Discipline Repartee

Book:False Colours

Source: False Colours

“More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone. This rude, simple, primitive power which we call "stick-to-it-iveness" is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour. People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things. They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.”

Discipline

Book:My Life and Work

Source: My Life and Work

“The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different.” Ogata-San sighed again. “Discipline, loyalty, such things held Japan together once. That may sound fanciful, but it’s true. People were bound by a sense of duly. Towards one’s family, towards superiors, towards the country. But now instead there’s all this talk of democracy. You hear it whenever people want to be selfish, whenever they want to forget obligations.”

Family Discipline Loyalty Japan

Book:A Pale View of Hills

Source: A Pale View of Hills

“First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if "I am in the mood" may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art.”

Love Art Discipline

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Having been brought up in a serf-owner’s family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, ordering, scolding, punishing, and the like. But when, at an early stage, I had to manage serious enterprises and to deal with men, and when each mistake would lead at once to heavy consequences, I began to appreciate the difference between acting on the principle of command and discipline, and acting on the principle of common understanding. The former works admirably in a military parade, but it is worth nothing where real life is concerned and the aim can be achieved only through the severe effort of many converging wills.”

Discipline Hierarchy Freedom Is Practical

Book:Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Source: Memoirs of a Revolutionist

“He was terrifically disciplined - he was in everything - and discipline, like vigilance, is a near-impossible quality to get someone to abandon.”

Quality Discipline Vigilance

Book:A Little Life

Source: A Little Life

“When I wanted to get into the habit of writing [...] I had to small-chunk-it so much to make this manageable. I started off with the length of a tweet: I commit to writing tweet-length essays everyday! And then eventually I was able to expand that.”

Writing Habit Discipline Habits One Step At A Time Step By Step Disciplined Discipline Yourself Building Habits Creating Habits

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