“Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.”
Source: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
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“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Patience et longueur de temps
Font plus que force ni que rage.
Book II (1668), fable 11.
Fables (1668–1679)
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
Quoted in The Aging American
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
“There are times when men's passions are much more trustworthy than their principles”
Source: The Way of Zen (1957), p. 29
Context: It was a basic Confucian principle that "it is man who makes truth great, not truth which makes man great." For this reason, "humanness" or "human-heartedness" (jen) was always felt to be superior to "righteousness" (i), since man himself is greater than any idea which he may invent. There are times when men's passions are much more trustworthy than their principles.
“One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare — a hobby more patient than angling.”
'The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Secret Garden
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 6, §8 (p. 223)
River out of Eden (1995)
Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
Maxim 1209, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: Everything is simpler than we can imagine, at the same time more complex and intertwined than can be comprehended.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
