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"The busier we are the more leisure we have."
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Personal Development
"I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine."
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Personal Development
"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."
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Personal Development
"It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it."
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Personal Development
"Coffee's the elixir of life."
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Personal Development
"I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day."
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Personal Development
"Discipline is needed in our lifestyle."
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Personal Development
"The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses."
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Personal Development
"I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon."
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Personal Development
"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."
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Personal Development
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"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."
Inspirational
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
Religion
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
Leadership
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
Choice
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
Art
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
Art
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
Writing
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
Marriage
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
Marriage
"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
Wisdom
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