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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
Old
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Experience
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
Thought
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Idea
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
Power
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
Direction
"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
Life
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
Equality
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
Word
"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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Personal Development
"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
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Personal Development
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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Personal Development
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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Personal Development
"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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Personal Development
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development
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