It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Joanna Field
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  1. I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

  2. There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

  3. I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

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  5. Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

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