<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452155" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ignoble Achievement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Conflicting ideals create chaos in the mind, <br>on the one hand, nobility of self-discipline <br>and virtue of patience - I tried to acquire <br>these virtues when I was small - and - </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Found it impossible - on the other hand, <br>the spontaneity of creative fun, finding <br>happiness in unbridled activity; how to <br>reconcile dreams of Biblical discipline </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With spontaneity - self-discipline requires the <br>sacrifice of short-term advantages and lesser <br>goals for long-term benefits, creating a need <br>for wisdom to know what are these – yet </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, unconditional acceptance of what-is, still <br>is the highest ideal; though subject to insight, <br>knowing which deeds will benefit others and <br>which won’t – this requires quiet reflection </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Violating the rights of others in serving our loved <br>ones always has bad effects because the means <br>simply becomes the end - using ignoble means <br>to achieve a noble purpose quickly degrades </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The achievement to the ignoble also, the saddest <br>effect of any human deed - and - <br>where does this leave me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452155" data-title="Ignoble Achievement de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Conflicting ideals create chaos in the mind, on the one hand, nobility of self-discipline and virtue of patience - I tried to acquire these virtues when I was small - and - Found it impossible - on the other hand, the spontaneity of creative..."></div> </div> </div>

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