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“Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Unlike many other journeys, when it comes to finding self and matters of the heart you'll swiftly find yourself lost if you follow someone else's”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“You don't have to know where you're going to get exactly where you need to go.”
― Marilyn A. Hepburn

“Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“But none of that matters at all.â€� His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, “It’s just—a way to go. There isn’t only one way to go.â€� I waved at his notes. “You’re trying to find a road where there isn’t one. It’s like—it’s gleaning in the woods,â€� I said abruptly. “You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it’s different every time.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader

“What do you think you'll do, Abel?" Abel walked slowly over to Silvestre and said: "Something very simple: I'm going to live. I will leave your home feeling much more confident than when I entered it. Not because the path you showed me was the right one for me, but because you made me realize that I need to find my own path. It will take time, though..." "Yours will always be the path of pessimism." "Probably, but I want my pessimism to keep me safe from facile, comforting illusions--like love." Silvestre gripped him by the shoulders and shook him: "But Abel, anything that isn't built on love will only generate hate!" "You're right, my friend, but perhaps that's how it will have to be for a long time yet. The day when we can build on love has still not arrived.”
― José Saramago

“It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“[If you think you're lost in life] even though your mind didn't know it, your soul has never been lost. It knows exactly where it's going, and if your ego will step out of the way and allow you to be guided, you will move directly towards you purpose in life.”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“Ah, Letty,â€� he said, bowing his head. ‘You were never lost. You were only following your dream.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“The Ascending Eagle by Stewart Stafford

I shall not stray down spurious alleys,
In pursuit of such desiccated husks,
To be a leaf adrift in vacuous air,
Bewildered on my windswept path.
Past the labyrinth of rustling choices,
Swirl fragments of doubt and error.

Life's force is a finite magic spark,
Some squander before they depart,
When climbing into our grave pits,
Twisted wreckage we leave behind.
Yet, in regret's deepening shades,
Lie orphans of our broken dreams.

The eagle, in cerulean-skied flight,
Took wing as a frightened chick,
Victory plucked from disaster's beak,
Trial and error are brick-tough fellows.
Guided by shimmering thermals below,
Soaring to its future beyond the horizon.

© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford