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Manvotional: The Power of Purpose. From Talks to Young Men, 1897By Charles Henry Parkhurst When calculating the prospects of a young man, and the likelihood of his being able to go through life without being taken off his feet, I always want to know whether he stands for anything in particular. A written sentence may be mere words or it may mean something. So a young man may be only a mixture of body and soul or he may mean something: that combination of body and soul may stand as the expression of an idea. He may be some truth incarnate, so that when you meet him you feel that you are encountering that truth, and when he talks to you have somehow the notion that truth is addressing you and arguing itself out with you.

There are a great many meaningless men in the community, and what that means is that, while they have the intelligence to understand an idea and the heart to feel it, yet the idea never gets so close to them as to have its reality tremendously experienced by them. “What the Young Man Should Know” From Harper’s Magazine 1933. Conversational Narcissism: How to Avoid It. Thumos and Why Passion Must Be a Driving Force of Your Life. From Mythology to Masculinity: How the Hero’s Journey Can Help You Become a Better Man.