Change
/“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”
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Wow, if ever I go this one wrong!
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“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Ask away
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“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
The gift has arrived
/“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.”
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The world of ideas
/“An idea that grips a person is alive. It wants to express itself, to live in the world ... An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it has now. It reduces the world to those things that aid or impede its realization, and it reduces everything else to irrelevance. ”
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Do no harm
/“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”
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Inner dialogue
/“What are the most powerful words in the universe? The ones you use to talk to yourself.”
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Truth
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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
Pain is a gift
/“Pain is a gift... It dominates attention for one purpose: to motivate behavior that will heal, repair and improve.”
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Net worth
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“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
Courage and action
/“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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Play the instrument
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“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”
Illusion and ignorance
/“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
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Smarts
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“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
The greatest teachers
/“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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A scientific mind
/“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
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Versions of history
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“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.”