Aphorism Eighteen: “It takes patience to know something well!”
Aphorism Nineteen: “Heed the directions found in personal fascinations!”
Full quote: “That’s one thing as a teacher I always emphasized—your personal fascinations are the most valuable thing you have, no matter what that fascination is…And I think it takes patience to know something.” By Tim Gautreaux, author of The Missing as quoted by Susan Larson, Times Picayune Newspaper, March 2009
Aphorism Twenty: “Obey the laws of imagination!”
Full Quote: “Like other writers, he (Anthony Trollope) had to compromise between his desire to sell and his need to obey the laws of his own imagination..” by Jane Narden, He Knew She Was Right, S. Illinois U. Press, 1989, p. 21
Aphorism Twenty-one: “Develop the discipline of gratitude!”
Full Quote: “Hillary recalled that one simple phrase in Neuwen’s book struck like an epiphany, ‘the discipline of gratitude’” from Her Way, 2007, Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. Little Brown, NY. Quoted by Hillary from The Return of the Periodical Son by Henri Neuwen.
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