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"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
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"Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final."
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"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is 'nothing."
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Personal Development
"If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers."
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Personal Development
"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."
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Personal Development
"Assumptions can be dangerous, JUST ASK!!"
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Personal Development
"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
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Personal Development
"Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?"
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Personal Development
"You may have noticed that the questions asked are better than the answers given. What do you expect? Perhaps we could submit these answers in a game and see if anyone could figure out what the hell the question was. "Ahh, how to be happy?"
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Personal Development
"Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones."
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"Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions."
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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."
Growth
"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."
Reality
"There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more clearly and wish to become whom the author would have wanted us to be."
Literature
"The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets."
Leadership
"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"
Art
"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."
Family
"I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from."
Religion
"However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative."
Work
"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains."
Reflection
"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
Marriage
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