Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.”
Source: The Giver
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“No man is born unto himself alone;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
Esther (1621), Sec. 1, Meditation 1.

Quoted in "The Other Side of the Hill" - Page 168 - by Basil Henry Liddell Hart - History - 1948.

Alfred Brendel (1976), as cited in: Benny Shanon (2013). The Representational and the Presentational. p. 380.

Vol. I, Ch. 11, pg. 336.
(Buch I) (1867)

“He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.”
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 25 (p. 187)