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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
― Confucius

“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
― Jean Piaget

“Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.”
― Jean Piaget

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Confucius

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”
― Confucius

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
― Ashley Montagu

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
― Aristotle

“Distraction, it turns out, isn’t about the distraction itself; rather, it’s about how we respond to it.”
― Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting. You want change, make some.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, The Lies about Truth

“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”
― Will Durant

“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
― Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

“But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ”
― Archimedes

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“Again, of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity (this is plain in the case of the senses; for it was not by often seeing or often hearing that we got these senses, but on the contrary we had them before we used them, and did not come to have them by using them); but the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
― Aristotle

“Haste makes waste.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee