But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
~ Albert Camus
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
~ Carl Sagan
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It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~ Edmund Hillary
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Three things define you:
1. Your patience when you have nothing.
~ unknown
2. Your attitude when you have everything.
3. …and who you help whenever you are able.
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Do not be fooled: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
~ unknown
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The quieter you become,
~ unknown
the more you can hear.
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Work hard in silence.
~ unknown
Let success make the noise.
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True friends stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
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I don’t know the actual meaning of maturity. But for me, maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand their situation rather than hurting them back.
~ unknown
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The great thing about taking chances when you’re younger is you have less to lose, and you don’t know as much. So you take big swings.
~ Amy Poehler
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