“The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.”

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Abraham Isaac Kook13

first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palest… 1865–1935

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 26

“Inside ourselves there lies the root of good:
the heart outweighs all talents on this earth.”

Nguyễn Du The Tale of Kieu

Source: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 3251–3252

“All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.”

Anne Brontë (1820–1849) British novelist and poet

“All... good and useful properties of character have a price in exchange for others which have just as much use. Talent has a market price, since the sovereign or estate-owner can use a talented person in all sorts of ways. Temperament has a fancy price,22 since one can converse well with such a person; he is a pleasant companion. But, character has an inner value[,] and it is above all price.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 203
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. All music is good. It fulfills a social function. It's like wallpaper to your lifestyle. It defines what you are.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

New York Daily News interview (1979)

“Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.”

Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman

“He is a driver with talent, ability and maturity, he manages to finish all his races. My record is going to be in good hands.”

Fernando Alonso (1981) Spanish racing driver

Emerson Fittipaldi, after Alonso took his record as Formula One's youngest champion. http://www.theage.com.au/news/motorsport/former-recordholder-hails-alonso/2005/09/26/1127586768600.html

“Want the best. The highest happiness, the greatest freedom. Desirelessness is the highest bliss. (…) Only God’s energy is infinite – because he wants nothing for Himself. Be like Him and all your desires will be fulfilled. The higher your aims and vaster desires, the more energy you will have for their fulfillment. Desire the good of all and the universe will work for you. But if you want your own pleasure, you must earn it the hard way. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

Desire and fear
Source: "I am That." P.49-50.

“Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Case" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.”

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