Each man must learn his own ...

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
 Romain Rolland

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There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.
 Romain Rolland
Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.
 Romain Rolland
There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.
 Romain Rolland
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.
 Romain Rolland
A hero is a man who does what he can.
 Romain Rolland