Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don’t look for them in the wrong places.
~ Henry Miller
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Patience
Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.
~ Ram Dass
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Books
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’
~ Helen Exley
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Journaling
I find that whatever hindrances occur I write just about the same amount of truth in my journal; For the record is more concentrated, and usually it is so very real and earnest life, after all, that interrupts. All flourishes are omitted.
~ H. D. Thoreau
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Possibility
I have rarely sat down at my desk with something to say, other than I am ready. The sitting comes first, turning up with a certain alertness to possibility. Only then does the idea feel free to settle. It settles small and very tentatively, then, through your active attention, it can grow into something much bigger. Sitting in a readied state can sometimes last a long and anxious time. But you must not despair! I have never found a situation where the idea refuses to come to the prepared mind.
~ Nick Cave
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Reset
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
~ Anne Lamott
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Dedication
I ain’t going to give up. Every time you think I’m one place, I’m going to show up someplace else. I come pre-hated. Take your best shot.
~ Cyndi Lauper
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Minds
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
~ Bulwer-Lyton
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Projection
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
~ Ram Dass
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Success
This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.
~ Anne Frank
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Luck
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.
~ Michael Lewis
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Humility
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Curiosity
If we look with curiosity at people who do not share our values, they become interesting rather than threatening. […] Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world. Having a conversation with someone I may disagree with is, I have come to find, a great, life embracing pleasure.
~ Nick Cave
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Mind
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
~ Bovee
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Wanting
The minute you stop wanting something you get it.
~ Andy Warhol
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Memento mori
We are all just walking each other home.
~ Ram Dass
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Thinking
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; It is thinking that makes what we read ours.
~ John Locke
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Mysterious
The world […] is indeed a strange and deeply mysterious place, forever changing and remaking itself anew. But this is not a novel condition, our world hasn’t only recently become bizarre and temporary, it has been so ever since its inception, and it will continue to be such until its end—mystifying and forever in a state of flux.
~ Nick Cave
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One
One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn’t easy: It requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.
~ Russell Brand
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Amateurs
That’s all of us are: Amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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