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#1

“Patterns don't lie; and at the centre of every pattern is you”
― Daniel Mangena, Stepping Beyond Intention

tags: motivational-quotes

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#2

“His soul had plummeted into a bottomless, black pit. Regret and sorrow crept into his heart, as he clawed his way back to the light.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle

tags: drama, fiction-novels, new-begining, regret, sorrow

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#3

“Engineers want to produce something,” said Wallach. “I didn’t go to school for six years just to get a paycheck. I thought that if this is what engineering’s all about, the hell with it.” He went to night school, to get a master’s in business administration. “I was always looking for the buck. I’d get the M.B.A., go back to New York, and make some money,” he figured. But he didn’t really want to do that. He wanted to build computers.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Soul of A New Machine

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#4

“He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupted existence. The other two joined in the game with enthusiasm, and soon all three of them were howling with laughter and emptying bottles at a rate which would have alarmed even a depressed Scandinavian.”
― Louis de Bernières, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord

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#5

“Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have remained almost as helpless as a baby.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

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#6

“Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur."

("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.")

[Journal entry, 10 December 1801]”
― Stendhal, The Private Diaries of Stendhal

tags: happiness, reality, reality-check, self-knowledge, self-perception, unhappiness

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#7

“Erau singuri - se credeau singuri - în casa mare și adormită. Nici o mărturisire, nici o sărutare, tăcere... Apoi, discuții înfierbântate și pasionate, în care vorbeau despre țările lor, despre familiile lor, despre muzică, despre cărți... Fericirea stranie pe care o simțeau... Graba de a descoperi fiecare inima celuilalt, o grabă de iubit care este deja o formă de dăruire, prima, dăruirea sufletului înainte de cea a trupului. <> Dar până atunci nici o vorbă de iubire. La ce bun? Sunt inutile când vocea răgușește, când gurile tremură, când se lasă tăcerile lungi...”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

tags: iubire, love, lovers

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#8

“We’re all still running, according to Kreizler—in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil household doors, away from the nightmares that continue to be injected into children’s skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in ever greater numbers toward those potions, powders, priests, and philosophies that promise to obliterate such fears and nightmares, and ask in return only slavish devotion.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

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#9

“You too, Caesar?”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

tags: cheating, life-lessons, powerlessness, sad-but-true, tough-times, treachery

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#10

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: childhood-memories, fiction, happiness, hardship, home, life, loss, memories, pain, sadness

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#11

“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago. How could it not? Flaminius was utterly gorgeous. But once she fell in love with him, she became happily enslaved.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, dramatic, dystopian, fantasy, fiction-action, good-v-s-evil, mystery, science-fiction

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#12

“On the outside she looked like a sexy young woman, on the inside he was a destroyed young man”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

tags: drugs, gang-stalking, heart-wrenching, intelligence-agents, life-events, military-bases, occult-persecution, panama, sexual-assault-true-crime, thought-provoking

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#13

“An algorithm that expedites care to a stroke patient in a chaotic emergency room (ER) has a good chance of adoption. An algorithm that reads a routine scan and provides some quantification of what the physicians can already estimate won’t be in as much demand. There are good reasons for algorithms to parse patient records to look for signs of rare diseases, but there are fewer good reasons for using them to evaluate clinical symptoms. It’s cool that AI tools can make diagnoses from scratch, but for most clinical encounters doctors are already pretty good at it.”
― Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

tags: brain, care-givers, covid-19, evaluations, experiences, humans, motivation, physicians, scans, treatment

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#14

“Ala Moire’s voice whispered in Alastair Munro’s head. “Well done, Alastair. The young King’s heart is for good and God is pleased. In future times he will be known as the Peacemaker and will become the greatest of all the Dewar kings.”
History would remember Dewar the Third’s reign as the greatest of the age, sixty years of peace and prosperity, of law and order, and most of all, of humility and love. His journey had begun.
Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#15

“Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

tags: bitterness, cruelty, ironies

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#16

“İfade özgürlüğü bir mitten başka bir şey değil.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, Back on the Road (Otra Vez): A Journey Through Latin America

tags: ifade-özgürlüğü

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#17

“Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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#18

“Dead men don't bite”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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#19

“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: dreams

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#20

“The north wind and the sun were disputing which was the stronger, and agreed to acknowledge as the victor whichever of them could strip a traveler of his clothing. The wind tried first. But its violent gusts only made the man hold his clothes tightly around him, and when it blew harder still the cold made him so uncomfortable that he put on an extra wrap. Eventually the wind got tired of it and handed him over to the sun. The sun shone first with moderate warmth, which made the man take off his topcoat. Then it blazed fiercely, till, unable to stand the heat, he stripped and went off to a bathe in a nearby river. Persuasion is more effective than force. ”
― Aesop

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#21

“sometimes feel as if I wasn’t supposed to live among people at all. As if I would be happier on a little island somewhere, all alone with my books and some writing material for company.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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