“I want my place! my own place! my true place in the world! my proper sphere! my thing to do, which nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my lifetime!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
more infosource: “The Intelligence Office,” in Mosses from an Old Manse Vol 2 (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1882), 365.
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category: calling, identity, job, place, purpose, work
medium: fiction
“The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.”
Cyril Connolly
more infosource: The Unquiet Grave (New York: Persea Books, 1981), 25.
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category: advice, health, purpose, self-care, thin, weight
medium: nonfiction
notes: Ernest Hemingway described The Unquiet Grave as “a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.”
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