Excerpts of Citations
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
~Anais Nin
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
~Anais Nin
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, ...
~Anais Nin
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Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
~Seneca
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
~Robert Frost
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
~Ulysses S. Grant
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
~HG Wells
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
~Sidney J. Harris
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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematic...
~Albert Einstein
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley
from "Music at Night", 1931 -
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming...
~Cicero
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
~Marcel Proust
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
~Arthur Koestler
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~Krishnamurti
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~Henry David Thoreau