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"That is what is so strange, that people will not believe what is really true, what is before their eyes."
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
The secret of art lies in the love of what you are doing.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
The future is something we can shape, not just something that happens to us.
Positive psychology is as concerned with strength as with weakness, as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst.
Happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It depends not on what happens outside of you, but on what happens inside of you.
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times... The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.