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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development
"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."
"If we fear to open our eyes during the day time, we will complain that life has nothing to offer except darkness."
"I respect the opinions of others."
"The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy."
"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."
Explore more quotes by James Merrill
"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
"He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline."
"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."
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