The search for a new ...

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
 Cesare Pavese

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
 Cesare Pavese
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
 Cesare Pavese
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
 Cesare Pavese
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.
 Cesare Pavese
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
 Cesare Pavese