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"The real question appears to be this - who is really poor? The industrious, cheerful people in a poor neighbourhood, who are set in a benevolent community which looks after its weakest members? Or the ones who are much better off in a materialistic way, but who are compelled to look the other way when someone poor (or even one of their own) needs help of any kind?" — Jul 03, 2024 08:24AM
"The real question appears to be this - who is really poor? The industrious, cheerful people in a poor neighbourhood, who are set in a benevolent community which looks after its weakest members? Or the ones who are much better off in a materialistic way, but who are compelled to look the other way when someone poor (or even one of their own) needs help of any kind?" — Jul 03, 2024 08:24AM
the theory of natural selection does not posit creatures matching themselves ever more precisely to a template specified by the world. It is more that creatures are in a dance with nature, albeit one that is deadly. “In my kingdom,” as the
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“love was a willingness to take the life you’ve built for yourself and tear it up for the other person.”
― The Algebra of Happiness: The pursuit of success, love and what it all means
― The Algebra of Happiness: The pursuit of success, love and what it all means
“tell my students that nothing wonderful, I’m talking really fantastic, will happen without taking a risk and subjecting yourself to rejection. Serendipity is a function of courage.”
― The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
― The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
“Dr. Norton L. Williams, a psychiatrist, addressing a medical convention, said that modern man’s anxiety and insecurity stemmed from a lack of self-realization, and that inner security can only be found “in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.” He also said that self-realization is gained by “a simple belief in one’s own uniqueness as a human being, a sense of deep and wide awareness of all people and all things, and a feeling of constructive influencing of others through one’s own personality.”
― Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
― Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
“It’s just that the magic of someone new never lasts long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo.”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
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