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“You must try, as my dear colleague the esteemed mythology professor Joseph Campbell used to say, to 'follow your bliss.'"
"Follow my bliss?" It sounded like a slogan in a yogurt commercial.
Aunt Gert nodded again. "You must follow your bliss no matter the circumstances life thrusts upon you."
"But what does that mean? I have responsibilities. I can't just up and leave everything to pursue my own happiness," I protested.
Aunt Gert snorted. "Who said anything about happiness? Don't be a ninny. You are mistakenly equating bliss with happiness. They're not the same thing."
"They're not?" I asked in bewilderment, wondering briefly if anyone in my life had ever called me a ninny before. "What's the difference?"
"Happiness is fleeting, fickle, often based on our circumstances." Aunt Gert waved a hand dismissively. "If you chase happiness, you will more often than not end up disappointed by the very nature of life. Life is hard, brutal at times, and often unfair. But following your bliss, that's entirely different. It means facing your present reality with honesty and courage and, in the midst of it all, continuing to pursue each spark of joy, even if it is a tiny pinpoint in the darkness of your life. Do not give up. Continue to look for the light in your life---it is always present somewhere, some small thing to be grateful for, something to celebrate, a way to give joy to others, a new way to grow. Move toward the light in life; seek it out no matter what. This is the essence of what it means to follow your bliss. You must be honest. Pay attention. Seek joy.”
Source: The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
“You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
Source: 1984
“You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.”
“You must try not to mind growing up into a pretty woman.”
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“You must try to change some things in your society and all good changes first start attacking old rotten ideas, storming common cultural stupidities and raiding spiritual lies, fearlessly and even ruthlessly! And never forget that you can defat ideas only with ideas!”
“You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.”
“You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.”
“You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is achievable girls, anything at all!”
Source: Shrinking Forward
“You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.”
“You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.”
Source: William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902
“You must try your best to make friends, for those who are small cannot easily stand alone.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.”
Source: The lives of the heart
“You must tune everything else out and create from your heart."
I nod, dipping my brush in red acrylic, then white, before mixing the paints on the palette until they form a perfect pink.
I paint a peony, and then another. I somehow recall a garden, far away from here, where there were (are?) peonies. I remember the way the blossoms are so heavy that they flounce over, and I reach for another brush and dip it into green to get the stems just right.”
Source: All the Flowers in Paris
“You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.”
“You must understand, no matter what anyone tells you, that you are free. In this moment you may do whatever you choose. No one can stop you. They can choose how to react to your choice, but they cannot stop the choice itself. This is freedom, understand? A knife in your hand. And you may do with it as you please.”
Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant
“You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my creation.”
Source: Strangers In Another Country
“You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."”
“You must understand something, George. The world's leaders create catastrophes and resolve them-- all at their own whimsy-- every single day. It is how the world runs. Lacking anything else to believe in, common people need to believe in their leaders' abilities to save them. It's true! Their emotional well-being-- and yes, their fate-- depends on the intelligence and skill of those who manipulate the days' disasters. And it should go without saying that the one who succeeds in taking the reins of leadership-- by whatever means-- is the most intelligent and skillful, and therefore most qualified to lead.”
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
“You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement.”
Source: Beyond the Grave
“You must understand that all great things come through time conversion.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You must understand that all of us are in the same boat which, at times, can find itself in calm seas and at others in rough ones.
Maybe you'll tell me that yours has only seen rough seas.
But know this... that a boat inured in rough seas comes out stronger than one anchored in port. The latter, in the heaven it enjoys, becomes more susceptible to rot.”
Source: Memories of Recurrent Echoes
“You must understand that at all times, I wanted this couple to scoop me into their arms, except for when they did, which was my cue to wriggle and break away and shout at them and run to my room.”
Source: Notes from a Regicide
“You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence”
Source: In My Hands
“You must understand that if you indulge in revenge exclusively, it will come back to you, because those who are revenged upon - even if the whole world believes they deserve it - will in some way express exactly what was expressed towards them. Why perpetuate suffering, no matter how justified it may seem to be, if it only perpetuates suffering in the future for future generations?”
“you must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny.”
Source: The Alchemist
“You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.”
“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
“You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.”
“You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interesting. But, essentially, it's just a tool.”
“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”
Source: Red Dragon
“You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.”
Source: The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
“You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.”
“You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.”
“You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.”
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.”
Source: Think on these things
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”
Source: Think on these things
“You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.”
“You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.”
“You must understand your individual temperament and have an awareness of your inner voice. What often happens when you enter into a relationship and you have no previous knowledge of your perception of love and your ability to be love, you begin to look for it within another one. Which is a dangerous thing because the tide of relationship will always be changing based on your perception of the idea of the love you are experiencing.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.”
“You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.”
“You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.”
“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
“You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.”
“YOU MUST USE ANY AND EVERY CHANCE TO BE SEEN AND HEARD, by creating as many digital marketing touchpoints as possible, to get KNOWN, LIKED AND TRUSTED!”
Source: Digital Marketing: Book #1 in the START-UPS ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET Series
“You must use force against terrorism.”
“You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.”