Excerpts of Citations
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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...
~Robert Cooper
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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 Maugham
from 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 -
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 f...
~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