The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
~ Tom Waits
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On bad writing →
Purpose in life →
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
~ David Letterman
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Everything is created twice →
Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.
~ Robin Sharma
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The power to break your back →
If you can lighten your burden you must do so. There is no straw which lacks the power to break your back.
~ unknown
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All comes out even at the end →
Weak as I am, I carry on the war to the last moment, I get a hundred pike thrusts, I return two hundred and I laugh. I see near my door Geneva on fire with quarrels over nothing, and I laugh again; And, thank god, I can look upon the world as a farce even when it becomes as tragic as it sometimes does. All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.
~ Voltaire
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Thoughtful, committed citizens →
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead
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Let the news come →
And what better use could you make of that time? A day that could be your last — you want to spend it in worry? In what other area could you make some progress while others might be sitting on the edges of their seat, passively awaiting some fate? Let the news come when it does. Be too busy working to care.
~ Ryan Holiday
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Not in the mood →
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
~ E. B. White
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Raw material →
Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power – Just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets its place in the destined order, and co-ops it, so every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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The muse →
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
~ Isabel Allende
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