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What sets lion chasers apart isn__ the outcome. It__ the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

The song we__e composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Stop doing stuff that doesn__ help you reach your goals. It sounds simple, doesn__ it? It__ a shame almost no one does it. The most common way we work more and do less is by working on the wrong stuff. We spend our time doing, doing, doing, even if the doing has nothing to do with our goals, business, or life.

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

My dad is shagging your aunt, probably right now. That makes us almost family.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

They__e both bungholes who think they__e too noble to shit,

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

a life without investigation is not worth living