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“What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.”

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.”

People Spirit Effort Gains Constant Exhaustion

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.”

Want Form Spirit Practice Balance Mindfulness Gains Increase Who You Are What You Want Sense Of Humor Introspection Willpower Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.”

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.”

“No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.”

Country Spirit Found Money Gains Scales Lifts Country Life

Book:The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)

Source: The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)