“The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.”
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. II, p. 43
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
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This is a paraphrase of statement in a thank you note from Carroll to a childhood friend, the actress Ellen Terry, published in Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1997), p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&lpg=PA126&vq=%22do%20for%20others%22&pg=PA126#v=snippet&q=%22do%20for%20others%22&f=fals by Nina Auerbach: "... and so you have found out that secret — one of the deep secrets of Life — that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?"
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Thomas Merton
(1915–1968) Priest and author
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