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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Pema Chödrön

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of…

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Isaac Rubin

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E. E. Cummings

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Laozi

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. Marcus Aurelius

It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. John Brunner