Since I've been talking about alignment all week, here are a few quotes that have guided me.
Let's start with the observation:
The pain of feeling like the only way you could belong, is by betraying yourself.
Alok Vaid-Menon
If the path before you is clear you're probably on someone else's.
Carl Jung
On entrevoit le bénéfice :
Be yourself so the people looking for you can find you.
Arlan Hamilton
If there's something you find easy that other people find difficult, do that for a living. There's money in that.
Jimmy Carr
I can't make that amazing Mac'n'Cheese at the restaurant without it being also an expression of me.
Chef Babette Davis
So then we establish a discipline:
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
Henri Matisse
If you work that hard, maybe it's not there. The best things often come naturally.
Conan O'Brien
Then we eventually realize it might be a duty:
Because you can. And only you can. If you don't do it, it won't be done.
A. Whitney Brown
Active men are usually lacking in higher activity – I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this they are lazy.
Nietzsche
If you have any others, I'd love to hear them :)