“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
– Terry Pratchett
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Every great achievement – Alain De Botton
“We’re surrounded by stories of success that conspire to make success seem easier than it in fact is – and therefore that unwittingly destroy the confidence we can muster in the face of our obstacles. Every great achievement was monstrously hard.”
– Alain De Botton
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Revolution – Joseph Campbell
“Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.”
– Joseph Campbell
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Permission – Elizabeth Strout
I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
– Elizabeth Strout
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The universe – Max Ehrmann
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
– Max Ehrmann
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Reading – Matt Haig
“Reading isn’t important because it helps get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. Reading makes the world better. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.”
– Matt Haig
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Crime – Hunter S. Thompson
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Leadership – Carolyn Tastad
“We need to broaden our definition of what leadership looks like. When we see behaviour that’s different, it gets judged in a negative light”
– Carolyn Tastad
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Rose-colored glasses – Unknown
“When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”
– Unknown
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Toward the sunshine – Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
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Act out – John Steinbeck
“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
– John Steinbeck
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Counts – Unknown
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that is counted truly counts.”
– Unknown
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Wasting time – Alain de Botton
‘Wasting time’ is mostly just fear.
– Alain de Botton
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Think – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Think it over, think it under.”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Laughed at – Carl Sagan
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
– Carl Sagan