Douglas Jacoby

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“When you choose to marry someone, you had better choose someone you’ll enjoy talking with for the rest of your life.”
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

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“... to be married is to volunteer for the most thorough surveillance program known to humankind. The person who is married is watched, more or less, all the time.”
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

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Consider this!
GLOBAL SMYRNA MEETING 4th ON THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF REVELATION & COLOSSAE
IZMIR • PAMUKKALE, Turkey June 6-12, 2027
Pre-tour: ISTANBUL June 3-6, 2027
Post-tour: CAPPADOCIA June 12-15, 2027
Click the link for the entire brochure: https://t.co/KSAJpFHkWE

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

“If you go into marriage seeking self-actualization, you will always feel frustrated because marriage, and especially parenting, will constantly be dragging you away from the goals of self.”
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

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“In an individualistic culture, marriage is not fusion; it is alliance.” David Brooks, The Second Mountain, p. 142

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“Passion peaks among the young, but marriage is the thing that peaks in old age.”                                                - David Brooks, The Second Mountain, p 139

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“People in long, happy marriages have won the lottery of life.” - David Brooks, The Second Mountain

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“You can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but you can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom.”      - David Brooks, The Second Mountain

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Beautiful pics of Turkey!
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Part 2 "They get out of boring offices and take jobs where the problems are. They are the ones who see their desires, confront their desires, and understand what they truly yearn for.” David Brooks, The Second Mountain

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The people who make the wisest vocation decisions are the people who lives their lives every day with their desires awake and alive...(Part 1)

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“If you really want to make a wise vocation decision, you have to lead the kind of life that keeps your heart and soul awake every day…
David Brooks, The Second Mountain

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“Ultimately, people become strangers to their own desires. José Ortega y Gasset believed that most people devote themselves to avoiding that genuine self, to silencing the daemon and refusing to hear it."
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

“Interest multiplies talent and is in most cases more important than talent.” 
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

“Passion peaks among the young, but marriage is the thing that peaks in old age.”                                                     
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

“People in long, happy marriages have won the lottery of life.” - David Brooks, The Second Mountain

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

“You can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but you can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom.”  - David Brooks, The Second Mountain

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

"...They are the ones who see their desires, confront their desires, and understand what they truly yearn for.”
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

"The people who make the wisest vocation decisions are the people who lives their lives every day with their desires awake and alive. They get out of boring offices and take jobs where the problems are...
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain

[Douglas Jacoby @douglasjacoby]

“If you really want to make a wise vocation decision, you have to lead the kind of life that keeps your heart and soul awake every day…"
- David Brooks, The Second Mountain