Experience is not what happens to you; It is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Moving
So much to lose or so it seems
~ Max Collins
These idle games and children’s dreams
How they confound and split the seams
Inside my mind, I just keep moving on
Into the unknown
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Plans
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
~ Allen Saunders
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Interesting
Anything is interesting if you dig deep enough, observe it from the correct angle, or talk to the right enthusiast.
~ Jason Kottke
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Try
Don’t say you can’t until you prove you can’t.
~ Les Paul
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Kindness
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
~ Lionel Barrymore
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Don’t interrupt
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
~ Henry J. Kaiser
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Insignificance
The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance. It’s the same with our lives. Just because there’s an end doesn’t mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker, or perhaps as an indirect metaphor for the fleeting nature of existence. It’s very philosophical—not that at this point I’m thinking how philosophical it is. I just vaguely experience this idea, not with words, but as a physical sensation.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Ideally like stars
Ideals are like stars; You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like seafaring men on the desert of waters, you choose them as our guides, and following them reach your destiny.
~ Carl Schurz
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Bridge
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.
~ Harry Ruby
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Disappointing
It’s impossible to please everyone. The question is whether you’re disappointing the right people.
~ Adam Grant
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Half
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
~ Barrow
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Join us
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope some day you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.
~ John Lennon
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Change
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~ Andy Warhol
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Hurry
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
~ Will Durant
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Beautiful
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
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Leave a trail
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Exerting yourself
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: That’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Silence
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
~ Mark Twain
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Youthful exuberance
You are only young once. After that you have to think up some other excuse.
~ Billy Arthur
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