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1 " I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment. "
― Bella Pollen , Midnight Cactus
2 " No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them. "
― Saul Bellow , Herzog
3 " Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. "
― Steven Pressfield , The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
4 " . . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.We can't be anything we want to be.We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. "
