Being an idealist is about having a sense of…

Being an idealist is about having a sense of purpose, encompasses our life as a whole for us to be happy. It is not enough to experience our life is meaningful on the general level of the big picture.

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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Do not mistake any of this for naïveté. To be an idealist, rightly understood, is to be a realist in the deepest sense — to stay true to what you and the world could actually become. Nietzsche pictured the human being as a rope stretched over an abyss, a creature always in transition, never finished, always on the way to something higher. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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