“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Truth – Spurgeon
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its boots on.”
– Spurgeon
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Everybody has a plan – Mike Tyson
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
– Mike Tyson
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Mind struggle – Mike Singer
“Everyone’s mind struggle seems to be, what do I need to do to be ok, and what does everyone else need to do for me to be ok, becomes the struggle of your life…”
– Mike Singer
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Selective reality – Bill Watterson
“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.”
– Bill Watterson
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Tough experience – Graham Bower
“A tough experience is not necessarily a bad experience. The belief that we should avoid any kind of suffering and instead seek an easy life filled with short-term pleasures is what stops us from achieving our goals.”
– Graham Bower
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Chemical reaction – Carl Jung
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
– Carl Jung
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
– William Blake
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Drama – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Life is just a highway – Jim Steinman
“If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car;
And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.”
– Jim Steinman
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Solitude – Rainer Maria Rilke
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Truth of their hearts – Sylvester Stallone
“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”
– Sylvester Stallone
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Sliced bread – George Carlin
“What was the best thing before sliced bread?”
– George Carlin
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Pizza – Yogi Berra
“You better cut the pizza into four slices, because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
– Yogi Berra
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Knowledge – Heinz R. Pagels
“Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.”
– Heinz R. Pagels