Our world is an ecosystem in which our only real chance at survival as a species is cooperation, community, and care, but it’s being led by people who believe in an ego system, run on competition, power, and self-interest.
~ Austin Kleon
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.
~ Alan Watts
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True genius shudders at incompleteness—and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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One of the most reliable signs that you need a holiday is the conviction that you cannot possibly spare the time to take one.
~ Bryan Magee
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Effort isn’t the point, impact is. If you solve the problem in three seconds but have the guts to share it with me, it’s still art. And if you move ten thousand pounds of granite but the result doesn’t connect with me, I’m sorry for your calluses, but you haven’t made art, at least not art for me.
~ Seth Godin
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We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
~ David Lynch
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We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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