[A]s I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; It’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write, though, I never reach a conclusion. And no matter how much I rewrite, I never reach the destination. Even after decades of writing, the same still holds true.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
~ Warren Buffett
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You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why.
~ Joseph Mayer
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Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.
~ David McRaney
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Experience is not what happens to you; It is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous Huxley
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So much to lose or so it seems
~ Max Collins
These idle games and children’s dreams
How they confound and split the seams
Inside my mind, I just keep moving on
Into the unknown
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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
~ Allen Saunders
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Anything is interesting if you dig deep enough, observe it from the correct angle, or talk to the right enthusiast.
~ Jason Kottke
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Don’t say you can’t until you prove you can’t.
~ Les Paul
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The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
~ Lionel Barrymore
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When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
~ Henry J. Kaiser
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The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance. It’s the same with our lives. Just because there’s an end doesn’t mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker, or perhaps as an indirect metaphor for the fleeting nature of existence. It’s very philosophical—not that at this point I’m thinking how philosophical it is. I just vaguely experience this idea, not with words, but as a physical sensation.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Ideals are like stars; You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like seafaring men on the desert of waters, you choose them as our guides, and following them reach your destiny.
~ Carl Schurz
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The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.
~ Harry Ruby
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It’s impossible to please everyone. The question is whether you’re disappointing the right people.
~ Adam Grant
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Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
~ Barrow
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You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope some day you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.
~ John Lennon
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~ Andy Warhol
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
~ Will Durant
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
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