The Hardest Thing Is To Do What You Want

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves?  It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. As I wanted to marry you. Not as I wanted to sleep with some worman or get drunk or get my name in the papers. Those things - they're not even desires - they're things people do to escape from desires - because it's such a big responsibility, really to want something"

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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[Jenna Kelly]

i love this quote - i love ayn rand.
...thanks for the reminder