You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
~ Alain de Botton
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Quotes
Perfectionism
Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination.
~ Dan Miller
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Feelings
Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Possessions
You can’t have everything.
Where would you put it?
~ Steven Wright
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Mystery
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Ingenuity
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
~ George S. Patton
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Exceptional
The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it’s also the first to be replaced.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
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Humor
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
~ Bern Williams
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Learn something
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~ David Eddings
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Attention
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.
~ Walter Anderson
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Play
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
~ Fred Rogers
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Decline
Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more accurately, than I ever do. Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it’s been moving ever forward without a moment’s rest. And one of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old. The honor of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Dogs
We give them the love we can spare, the time we can spare. In return, dogs have given us their absolute all. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
~ Roger Caras
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Cultivate
Give fools their gold and knaves their power, let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall, who sows a field or trains a flower or plants a tree, is more than all.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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Courage
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee
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Character
Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.
~ Mark Manson
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It can’t be done
Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done.
~ Ben Morcell
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Creativity
The highest form of creativity is found by improvising within a set of restrictions.
~ Christopher Nolan
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Understanding
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.
~ Baruch Spinoza
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It’s the cake
A party without a cake is really just a meeting.
~ Julia Child
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