Unbroken

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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway

Change

“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash

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.”
— Hermann Hesse

How we carry

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“It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”
— Lou Holtz

Ask away

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Photo by Jeremy Vessey on Unsplash

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
— Carl Jung

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.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Photo by Kees Streefkerk on Unsplash

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. ”
— Jordan B. Peterson

Do no harm

“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”
— Dalai Lama
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Photo by Simon Fitall on Unsplash

Inner dialogue

“What are the most powerful words in the universe? The ones you use to talk to yourself.”
— Karen Salmansohn
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Truth

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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
— Chief Joseph

Pain is a gift

“Pain is a gift... It dominates attention for one purpose: to motivate behavior that will heal, repair and improve.”
— Steven Stosny
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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.”
— Benjamin Franklin

Courage and action

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
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Photo by David Marcu on Unsplash

Play the instrument

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Photo by Ira Selendripity on Unsplash

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde

Illusion and ignorance

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
— Saul Bellow
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Photo by Simon Stratford on Unsplash

Smarts

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“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
— Laurence Peter

The greatest teachers

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
— James Baldwin
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Photo by Katherine Chase on Unsplash

True guilt?

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“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
— Voltaire

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.”
— Konrad Lorenz
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Photo by Simon Wilkes on Unsplash

Versions of history

“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.”
— African Proverb