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“Life itself is a quotation.”
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“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.”
― The Tao of Pooh
― The Tao of Pooh
“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”
― The Tao of Pooh
― The Tao of Pooh
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
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Books of Some Substance
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B.O.S.S. is a San Francisco-based book club and podcast with a charter to read books of "substance" (see: boring, too long, out-dated, sighhhh as othe ...more
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