A sixth century BC Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote of such personal power in the classic Tao Te Ching. He characterized Te as the potential energy that comes from being in the right place at the right time in the right frame of mind. The
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“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
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“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“The standard pace is for chumps. The system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than ‘just anyone’ — you can do so much more than anyone expects. And this applies to ALL of life — not just school.”
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“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
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