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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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
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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Activity
Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.
~ Japanese proverb
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Luxury
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.
~ Cicero
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Experience
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
~ Ram Dass
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Books
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
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Words
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
~ Tom Stoppard
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Change
The most reliable way to change your entire life is by not changing your entire life… Improve the whole by mastering one thing.
~ James Clear
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Sea
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Nature
I can do nothing without nature. I do not know how to make things up.
~ Manet
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Work
No country ever was built by people sleeping in. Austria was not built by people sleeping in. America was not built by people sleeping in. People struggled, people suffered, people worked their asses off to build this country.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
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