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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Abraham Myerson
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in Jurgen that to do what you always have done and what is expected of you are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.
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W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
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Geoffrey F. Albert
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Unknown
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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Lin Yutang
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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Maria Mitchell
BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.
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Rita Mae Brown
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
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