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"I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things."
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"There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute."
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Personal Development
"Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals."
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Personal Development
"It is better to focus on the mission than to earn money."
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Personal Development
"Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both."
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Personal Development
"Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!"
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Personal Development
"The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah..."
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Personal Development
"He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple."
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Personal Development
"You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want."
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Personal Development
"Give preference to things of the greatest lasting value."
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Personal Development
"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid."
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"Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped."
Life
"I' was the last word I was able to speak aloud, which is a terrible thing, but there it is, I would walk around the neighborhood saying, 'I I I I.' 'You want a cup of coffee, Thomas?''I.' 'And maybe something sweet?''I.' 'How about this weather?''I.' 'You look upset. Is anything wrong?' I wanted to say, 'Of course,' I wanted to ask, 'Is anything right?' I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning, but instead I said 'I.' I know I'm not alone in this disease, you hear the old people in the street and some of them are moaning, 'Ay yay yay,' but some of them are clinging to their last word, 'I,' they're saying, because they're desperate, it's not a complaint, it's a prayer, and then I lost 'I' and my silence was complete."
Life
"It's much easier to be cruel than one might think."
Life
"So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for."
Love
"Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things."
Nature
"My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp."
Life
"If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.Can we tell a new story?"
Ethics
"If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word."
Communication
"I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky."
Psychology
"He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him."
Psychology
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