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"We can find a latent energy inside us."

"The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree."

"Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference."

"Be an example, be kind and be simple."

"The world of dreams is such a wonderful place! That is, if you have love in your heart. If you have madness in your heart, you will have mad dreams. If you have guilt in your heart, you will have dreams that make you feel more guilt. But me, I have love in my heart and room for nothing else. I love my dreams and they love me."

"The Earth orbits round tables."

"Be obdurately determined to bring your courage to the world."


"If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow."

"And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway."

"Stay alert! Don't let someone's words blind you from their behavior... They can say all the right things, they can make you feel things you've never felt before, but don't be fooled; their actions will reveal their true character, desires, and priorities. Behavior speaks; pay attention to what it tells you. Behavior is math; pay attention to what it reveals."


"It is not enough to know that you are called, it is also necessary to know how you will accomplish your calling."

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

"When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite."


"The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe."

"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."


"Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body."


"In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense."

"More focus has been placed on these subjects through human history than on anything else-mystery and mysticism, God, imagination, intuition, the nature of relationships, human purpose, happiness and salvation."


"He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods."

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

"Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve."

"If your curiosity reaches a breaking point (compelled actually means that you only have the remaining choice to act on it, having tried all the other options before), and becomes fascination with mystery or truth, you find what you need. Maybe it's a person, maybe it's a tragedy, maybe it's an explosive recognition that, "My God, I'm still alive."

"Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that."


"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

"The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose."

"Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions."

"Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul."

"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."

"You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you."


"You're noble enough, Baudelaires. That's all we can ask for in this world."
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