“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
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“The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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