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The greatest problem of most human beings is that we listen half, 
we understand quarter, we think zero, we react double and remember forever

Birds do it, bees do it, Even educated fleas do it
Some Argentines, without means, do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
In Spain, the best upper sets do it
Electric eels I might add do it, Even lazy jellyfish, do it
In shallow shoals English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Money doesn’t change you;
it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

—   Gautama Buddha 

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
—   Gautama Buddha

“Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.”

Greg Graffin

“To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that’s a life well-lived.”

Laurene Powell Jobs

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”

Maria Shriver

“The only safe thing is to take a chance.”

Mike Nichols

Commit yourself to quality from day one; it’s better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.”

Mark McCormack

“Friends are not made, but recognized.”

Carl Rakosi

“Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.”

James Naismith

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

Thomas Aquinas

“The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.”

Bryant H. McGill

“The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn’t end with death but with eternal life.”

Angelo Scola

“The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn’t end with death but with eternal life.”

Angelo Scola

“Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.”

Eric Kandel

“Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.”

Richard G. Scott

“We have to adapt and overcome, that’s all we can do.”

Frank Knight

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

Sydney J. Harris

“After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Margaret Mitchell

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

Pema Chodron

“Reality is ugly,
but life is beautiful.”

Epik High

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun...

“Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.”

Harlow Shapley

“You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.”

Roseanne Barr

“If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.”

Adam Ant

Everybody’s life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.”

Dolph Lundgren

“Success is based on action. The more you volunteer, the more you get to act. Successful people step forward to create opportunities.”

Jeff Haden

“Success is based on action. The more you volunteer, the more you get to act. Successful people step forward to create opportunities.”

Jeff Haden

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”

Marianne Williamson

“The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you didn’t even think to ask.”

Jeff Johnson, 180° South documentary

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”

Eduardo Galeano

“If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.”

Kristin Armstrong

“If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be.”

Mastin Kipp

“The Universe is saying: ‘Allow me to flow through you unrestricted, and you will see the greatest magic you have ever seen.’”

Klaus Joehle

“Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.”

Bob Goff, Love Does

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

Scott Peck

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

Wayne Dyer

“someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. they can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. and whatever their reasons you must leave. because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. you never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. there is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. and there is the love that will be ready.”

“May you always do what you are afraid to do.”

“I’m not much but I’m all I have.”

— Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

there are only two mistakes one can make on the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.”

— Buddha

there are only two mistakes one can make on the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.”

— Buddha

the secret of joy is mastery of pain
- anais

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

—

Anaïs Nin

People matter.
Regardless of political, economic or geographic differences. 
People matter. 
Irrespective of ethnicity, religion or education.
People matter. 
No matter their gender, age or relational preference. 
People matter. 
Even with a physical, mental or social disability.
People…

"For us, there is only trying. The rest is not our business."

- T. S. Eliot

We are not paid for our time and effort. We are paid to produce something, and, occasionally, it’s good to remember what it is."

- Robert Braut

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God, and He didn't come through, you only trusted God to meet your agenda

- Timothy Keller

The function of mind is response. The function of life is adaptation; Forests are adaptations of seeds, and seeds of dust

— Lao Tzu

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work

- Chuck Close 

Those who stay married live four years long than those who don’t.”

— John M. Gottman,

Sometimes, it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child’s smile, a cup of excellent coffee.”

— Jonathan Carroll

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

― Anthony de Mello

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail

- Lech Walesa

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably

- Anita Ekberg

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.”

— John Cage

Failure is a path, not a destination.”

— Robert Logan

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself; your own thinking coming back to you

— Byron Katie

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to."

- Danny Wallace, Yes Man 

A great nation is like a great man:
When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it.
Having admitted it, he corrects it.
He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers.
He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts."

- Lao Tzu 

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

— Krishnamurti 

Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.

- Anthony Douglas

here is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.'

- Chogyam Trungpa, 

We don’t worship God, or Buddha, or Krishna. We worship our story about them. We worship our beliefs.”

— Byron Katie

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both."

- Criss Jami

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren and to do GOOD is my religion."

- Thomas Paine

You don't have a soul, You are a soul, you have a body.
- CS Lewis

A tiny bud of a smile on your lips nourishes awareness and calms you. It returns you to the peace you had lost. A smile is the most basic kind of peace work."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.”

— The Bhagavad Gita 

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. 
- Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

- Warsan Shire

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
- Stéphane Mallarmé

Nothing offends a man of our day and our race more than to tell him that he is not original, that he is weak-willed, has no particular talents and is an ordinary person.

Dostoevsky, The Idiot

I love that sweet smell of decay that surrounds me in forests and woods. A kind of mulchy, deep, rich rot that has no connotation of death or ending, but rather of life and age. A sense of perpetual destruction and rebirth.Unknown

 I wish somebody had told me that loving people, knowing how to love those people, and those people loving you back were three entirely different things.
Della Hicks-Wilson

Our imagination flies - we are its shadow on the earth.

Vladimir Nabokov

I learned that love doesn’t hold its tongue and passion doesn’t bow to what ‘they’ think. Sometimes it’s painful to be brave, to look fear in the face - and know Your name.

Steffany Gretzinger, I Spoke Up

Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.

Chief Red Eagle

“Sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war.”

your mind is a garden, you can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds

Spend your time on those who love you unconditionally. Don’t waste it on those that only love you when the conditions are right for them.”

– Unknown 

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

– Mandy Hale (

“Strength is realizing that it is impossible to be strong all the time”

– Sally Franser 

Life becomes more meaningful when you realize the simple fact that you’ll never get the same moment twice.”

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

—Francis Jourdain

If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

—Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

—Charles Spurgeon

Tea is an act complete in its simplicity.
When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea.
The rest of the world dissolves.
There are no worries about the future.
No dwelling on past mistakes.
Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.
I inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.
I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me.
I am informed by the tea, changed.
This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed: all the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
There is only the tea, and me, converging.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

 As noble as it sounds to say you would die for someone. It takes more courage and commitment, to live for them. 

william chapman 

I only think of you 2 times a day. All day, and every day. 

William Chapman 

Be who you are with confidence. Nothing will hold you back more then being afraid of who you are. 

William Chapman 

A great future doesn’t require a great past

 it’s about who you miss at 2 in the afternoon when you’re busy, not 2 in the morning when you’re lonely. 

She stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away.

― Saul Williams, She

“ Read books. 
Ride buses. 
Take walks.
Speak to your loneliness. ”

— Pavana

“ Childhood is a knife stuck in your throat. It can’t be easily removed. ”

— Incendies (2011)

We are not the dirt
we are planted in, 

we are the light 
and the water
we nourish ourselves from.

We are the flowers 
we choose to be. ”— Pavana  

“ Life is too short to keep breaking your back for someone who doesn’t have a spine of their own. ”

— Pavana

"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

 Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

"Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."

—  Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband

Girls who don’t receive romantic/sexual attention from boys blame themselves

Boys who don’t receive romantic/sexual attention from girls blame girls

Remember, it’s your job to look for something cool in everyone you meet; it’s not their job to show you. This is life, not a fucking sales convention. 

Mark Manson 

“If you do not love where you are, 
I invite you to question your beliefs.”
- Byron Katie

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others’ faults. 

Be like running water for generosity. 

Be like death for rage and anger. 

Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

Rumi

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”

—   A Course in Miracles 

“If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?”

—   Doug Copeland

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

—   Stephanie Perkins

“I’m not for everyone. I’m barely for me.”

—   Marc Maron  

"How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?"

- Laurel Hoodwrit

"Veganism is not about how easy or hard it is for you. It’s about every animal’s right not to be used as a slave."

- Randy Sandberg 

"It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy let it go."

- William Chapman

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

—   Eleanor Roosevelt.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
The Bhagavad Gita

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

Sophocles

"I, a universe of atoms, am an atom in the universe."

-Richard Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Who were you before the world told you what you were not. 
Bryant McGill 

If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies
how very different our ideals of beauty would be....

"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived."

Paul Bourget

“If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.”

—   Unknown.