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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Decide →
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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Reading →
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain
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Growth →
Everyone encourages you to grow up to the point where you can discount your own bad moods. Few encourage you to continue to the point where you can discount society’s bad moods.
~ Paul Graham
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