Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
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Quotes
1 “realistic” belief
This growing discontent is a warning: a message to stop dissipating your powers in low-level problem solving, to lift your aim and seek better, higher-order problems: ones more lucrative, more alluring… ones better suited to your highest gifts.
~ Bryan Ward
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How art can change your life
No, I don’t think you’re born with it. You have to hear stories and you have to live stories. You have to have a bunch of experiences and be able to say ‘Here’s something that happened to me yesterday….’ And if you can make people laugh by telling them what happened to you, then you are telling the story well. So that’s what I learned in improv.
~ Bill Murray
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Now or never
Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, no time out. Sometimes it is now or never.
~ unknown
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View from the top
When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.
~ unknown
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Curious children
Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
~ Albert Einstein
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Thoughts manifest
The thought manifests the word;
~ Juan Mascaro
The word manifests the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care.
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Constant craving
The pain I endure became the pleasure I constantly crave.
~ unknown
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Lift someone else
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
~ Booker T. Washington
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Work hard
Remember: Rome wasn’t built in a day.
~ unknown
Work hard, good results will come.
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Balancing both natures
I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.
~ Jack London
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You have to
If no one thinks you can,
~ unknown
then you have to.
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Enjoy the Natural World
Hike mountains.
~ unknown
Run through meadows.
Explore forests.
Swim the sea.
Climb trees.
Breath wild air.
Gaze at the stars.
Enjoy the natural world.
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How far you’ve come
Always focus on how far you’ve come,
~ unknown
rather than how far you have to go.
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Your values are not hobbies
If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values: They’re hobbies.
~ Jon Stewart
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We’re all stories, in the end
It’s funny, I thought, if you could hear me, I could hang on, somehow. Silly me. Silly old Doctor. When you wake up, you’ll have a mum and dad, and you won’t even remember me. Well, you’ll remember me a little. I’ll be a story in your head. But that’s OK: we’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
~ “Doctor Who“
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Two points
WORK HARD
~ unknown
STAY HUMBLE
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Failure
I can accept failure, but I cannot accept not trying.
~ unknown
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Champions
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
~ Jack Dempsy
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All past time is in the same place
For remembering makes everything “just now,” doesn’t it? Just now I was a boy, sitting in the house of Sotion the philosopher; Just now I began to argue cases; Just now I stopped wanting to argue them; Just now I ceased to be able. The rapidity of time is boundless—and is more evident when one looks back. For though it goes at breakneck speed, it glides by so smoothly that those who are intent on the present moment fail to notice it passing.
~ Seneca
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