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Vinculums of the Nexus
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Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
~Eric Fromm
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One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
~Sonia Johnson
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problem s. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.
~Vernon Howard
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
~Mark Twain
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
~Oscar Wilde
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In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
~Carlos Castaneda
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During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
~Fritjof Capra
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
~Oscar Wilde
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The way you get meaning in your life is to devote yourself to others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
~Mitch Albom
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Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
~Alfred North Whitehead
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
~Edgar Watson Howe
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Accept who you are and revel in that.
~Mitch Albom
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Every moment of our lives we are either growing or dying–and it's largely a choice, not fate. Throughout its life cycle, every one of the body’s trillions of cells is driven to grow and improve its ability to use more of its innate yet untapped capacity. Research biologist Albert Szent-Gyoergyi, who was twice awarded the Nobel Prize, called this syntropy, which he defined as the "innate drive in living matter to pefect itself." It turns conventional thinking upside down.
As living cells–or as people–there is no staying the same. If we aim for some middle ground or status quo, it's an illusion–beneath the surface what's actually happening is we're dying, not growing. And the goal of a lifetime is continued growth, not adulthood. As Rene Dubos put it, "Genius is childhood recaptured." For this to happen, studies show that we must recapture–or prevent the loss of–such child-like traits as the ability to learn, to love, to laugh about small things, to leap, to wonder, and to explore. It's time to rescue ourselves from our grown-up ways before it's too late.~Robert Cooper -
It’s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes.
~Robert Cooper
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
~Henrik Tikkanen
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
~Albert Einstein
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
~ W. Somerset Maughamfrom 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Life is too short for theatrics, for face time, for jumping through hoops, for excuses, for blaming, for trying too hard to please others, or for chasing society’s illusion of distant riches or fame.
~Robert Cooper
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
~HG Wells
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
~James M. Barrie
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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
~Paul Goodman
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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~Elbert Hubbard
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
~Horace
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
~Thich Nhat Hanh