Category: Quotes I Like
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Eternity—Infinity
Recent deaths among family and friends always stir deep reflections in me. For example: Eternity. To me that means something like a timeline without beginning or end, or a forever NOW—infinitely forever—always, and Infinity: the same except with more focus on quantity; ie. infinitely small or large, but also without limit at either end. Here’s…
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Do You Need Experience to Write?
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience. John Locke
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Learning
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs There’s a lot of truth in the old saying, “hindsight is 20/20”. Yes. That’s the way we learn. By making mistakes, looking…
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To Arrive at Who, What, Where You Want to Be
there’s no substitute for being at the heart of the action. And to get there, you have to leave here. There’s no substitute for your physical presence at ground zero of your dream. Charles Tutt
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Give Sorrow Words
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break William Shakespeare, Macbeth We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an…
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Wise Words
In my world, nothing ever goes wrong. Nisargadatta Mahara What does that mean? That’s an eyes-open statement. It’s not his world that’s different, it’s him; his undistorted, unfiltered perspective. He has removed the artificial barrier of ego from the perceiver-perception-perceived union and so the three become one and perfection is the certain result. Jed McKenna
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You Are a Different Person in Every Mind
A different version of you exists in the mind of everyone that has ever met you, and it’s very different from what you think about yourself. The person you think you are does not even exist outside of your mind. We all believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity—but if we dare to examine…