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Vinculums of the Nexus

• It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
  ~Kahlil Gibran
• To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
  ~Victor Hugo
  from Les Miserables
• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
  ~Bertrand Russell
• You have enormous untapped power you'll probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second.
  ~William James
• Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
  ~Amy Bloom
• You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows -- and has always known -- that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
  ~Tony Robbins
• To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
  ~Plutarch
• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
  ~E. H. Chapin
• Gratitude is deeper than thanks. Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
  ~David O. Mckay
  from Improvement Era, Nov 1964, 914
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  That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
  ~Paul Tournier
• We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs...
  ~Aristotle
• Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
  ~Samuel Johnson
• There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
  ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
  ~Plato
  from Dialogues, Theatetus
• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
  ~Ursula K. LeGuin
• The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
  ~Will Rogers
• The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  ~Albert Einstein
• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
  ~Aristotle
  from Nichomachean Ethics
• I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
  ~E.B. White
• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.
  ~George Bernard Shaw
• Do what you can, and confess frankly what you are unable to do; neither let your effort be shortened by fear of failure, nor your confession silenced for fear of shame.
  ~John Ruskin
• Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
  ~Arthur Schopenhauer
• Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
  ~Han Suyin
• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.
  ~Napolean Bonaparte
• A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
  ~Lenin

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