The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
~ Hosea Ballou
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Inlet to the soul →
Everyone else →
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Decide →
Decide! There is nothing in the world so pitiable as an undecided man, who wavers between two feelings, hoping to reconcile them, and does not understand that nothing can unite them.
~ Goethe
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Knowing →
This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.
~ Alan Watts
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Listening →
Sit at your desk and listen.
~ Franz Kafka
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Meaning →
Those who can’t find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it too.
~ Lew Welch
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Open to →
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
~ Richard Cavett
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Belief →
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~ Ralph Hodgson
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Accumulated →
The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.
~ Niall Ferguson
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Unnecessary →
Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
~ Sebastian Junger
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