The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
Hugh MacLeod
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You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.
...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.
If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.
..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?
The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
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... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
