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Vinculums of the Nexus
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No one is listening until you make a mistake.
~Steven Wright
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Anywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
~Steven Wright
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War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
~Steven Wright
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
~Steven Wright
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I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it.
~Steven Wright
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One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"
~Steven Wright
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To be authentic literally means to be your own author.
~Dan Millman
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
~Dan Millman
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
~Dan Millman
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Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
~Dan Millman
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
~George Bernard Shaw
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"~W.H. Murray -
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~Andre Gide
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...why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.
~Eric Butterworth
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I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.
~Paulo Coelho
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Our life is frittered away by detail.
~Henry David Thoreau
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True wealth is about taking control of your future and making choices about what you really want in life. Money is only a means to help you get what you want in life, not life itself.
~Unknown
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True wealth is living with passion & purpose.
~Unknown
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~Leo Tolstoy
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~Carl Jung
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Follow your bliss.
~Joseph Campbell
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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
~Seneca
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Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.
~Marilyn Vos Savant
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
~Virginia Woolf
