When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've
detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some
aspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. This
discomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision
is the promise of what you shall read more
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision
is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of
what you shall at last unveil.
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be
happy.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be
happy.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage.
Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than read more
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage.
Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep read more
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
