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« According to Aristotle's writing, it is by practicing virtue that one acquires virtue.2 It is by doing small acts of trust that one becomes confident. I often thought, "When I have confidence, I will do acts of trust." The opposite is true. It is by giving life a little bit of confidence every day that confidence is gradually discovered. It is not a question of importing trust but of seeing that it is already in us. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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« To become light is to humbly accept fate after trying everything to eradicate one's shadow, to assert resistance where revolt and anger prevail, is to refuse that rage or hatred alienate freedom. To be light is therefore to use forceful joy against what is sour, against what isolates, to support the one who suffers so that he does not slam into his ill-being »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job |
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job
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« Difficulty seasons, stimulates, it forces to find solutions. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness |
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness
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