An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes one can make in a very narrow field.
~ Niels Bohr
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Painful experience →
Hang on →
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
~ unknown
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Happiness →
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
~ unknown
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On my way →
I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
~ Carl Sagan
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Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow →
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
~ Agent ‘K’, in Men in Black, (1997 film)
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Character →
If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.
~ Paul Newman
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Humility →
Why is humility a virtue? Because it avoids complacency and self satisfaction, and promotes a view that there is much to be learned, much to be improved, much to be sought out, much yet to be achieved, much to be admired, understood and perhaps emulated.
~ unknown
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None of my business →
My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. …and it makes life so much easier.
~ Anthony Hopkins
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Good and bad →
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both charity and love.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Choices →
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; It is expressed in the choices one makes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Mark of an educated mind →
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
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Your former self →
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; True nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Reverse →
Life can only be understood in reverse.
~ unknown
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Watch the river →
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
~ A. A. Milne
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Remain upbeat →
A wise man hopes things will change, but remains upbeat when things do not.
~ unknown
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No power over you →
Your past is a story. …and once you realize this, it has no power over you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Those who hustle →
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
~ unknown
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Keep moving forward →
It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
~ Rocky Balboa, in Rocky Balboa (2006 film)
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Start where you are →
Start where you are.
~ Arthur Ashe
Use what you have.
Do what you can.
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Peace →
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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