Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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