When you fall in love with someone, an 8.5 equals a perfect 10.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future.
They would twirl the emotional kaleidoscope until it gave them a picture that was comfortable.
From Washington Post article How the Brain Helps Partisans Admit No Gray by Shankar Vedantam on 31 July 2006, quoting Emory University psychologist Drew Westen [via, source]
Watch me rise up and leave all the ashes you made out of me.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Holding your hands over your eyes does not mean that other people cannot see you.
“No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
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By walking I found out
Where I was going.
By intensely hating, how to love
By loving, whom and what to love.
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“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the powerful roar of its many waters.”
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“Know, think, choose, do.”
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“It’s no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it.”
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