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"“Many of the world's most influential personalities have exchanged their thorns for crowns. Charles Darwin, suffering from a recurrent physical illness; Robert Louis Stevenson, plagued with tuberculosis; and Helen Keller, inflicted with blindness and deafness, responded not with bitterness or fatalism, but rather by the exercise of a dynamic will transformed negative circumstances into positive assets.”" — 12 hours, 1 min ago
"“Many of the world's most influential personalities have exchanged their thorns for crowns. Charles Darwin, suffering from a recurrent physical illness; Robert Louis Stevenson, plagued with tuberculosis; and Helen Keller, inflicted with blindness and deafness, responded not with bitterness or fatalism, but rather by the exercise of a dynamic will transformed negative circumstances into positive assets.”" — 12 hours, 1 min ago
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"“The desire to discover something new prevents people from allowing their thoughts to dwell on the transcendent, undemonstrable meaning of what has already been discovered.”" — Oct 03, 2025 04:45AM
"“The desire to discover something new prevents people from allowing their thoughts to dwell on the transcendent, undemonstrable meaning of what has already been discovered.”" — Oct 03, 2025 04:45AM
“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”
― 1984
― 1984
“By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.”
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“The blessing of Google is its uncanny skill in finding what you're looking for; the curse is that it so rarely finds any of those lovely odd things you're -not- looking for. For that pleasure, it seems, we need -books.-
(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
“Life is not something, it is the opportunity for something!”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“Even more powerful than fate is the courage that bears it steadfastly.”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
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