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“The difference is simple: happy people look at their lives and see a series of choices. Miserable people see only a series of sacrifices.”
― The Coincidence Makers
― The Coincidence Makers
“Stress happens when the mind resists what is.”
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.”
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.”
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“Our role is to be exactly on the border, to stand in the gray area between fate and free will, and to play Ping-Pong there.”
― The Coincidence Makers
― The Coincidence Makers
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