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“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
“You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.”
― Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
― Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
“I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
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