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• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Compassion, Mind

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• The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Taken, Sadness

  "Compassion: The Less You Suffer, the Kinder You Naturally Become" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

  Henry Ford

  Yards, Planes

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• I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, World, Goodness

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• Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

  Eli Broad

  Giving, Decision, Advice

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Team, Boxes

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• I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

  Thomas Merton

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Christianity

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• For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man on this earth into the cloud where I dwell in Your light, that is, Your darkness, where I am lost and abashed. I cannot explain to any other man the anguish which is Your joy nor the loss which is the Possession of You, nor the distance from all things which is the arrival in You, nor the death which is the birth in You because I do not know anything about it myself and all I know is that I wish it were over - I wish it were begun.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Distance, Loss

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

  David Lee Roth

  Years, Land, Teach

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• Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.

  Alice Bailey

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  Alice A. Bailey, Djwhal Khul (1955). “Discipleship in the New Age Vol II”, p.62, Lucis Publishing Companies

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• I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

  Diego Maradona

  World, Cups, Advantage

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• I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.

  Joe Satriani

  Grateful, Guitar, Play

  BAM Magazine, April 06, 1990.

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• Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Monkeys, Should, Organs

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• The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

  Richard Branson

  Communication, Phones, Years

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• So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Is Space Tourism Finally About To Take Off?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 6, 2014.

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• I don't need a psychiatrist.
  I can sort out my fears with my work.
  That's the privilege of all artists,
  to be able to sort out their unhappiness
  and their neuroses in order
  to create something.

  Michael Haneke

  Artist, Order, Needs

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• I can hear the roar of women's silence

  Thomas Sankara

  Women, Silence

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

  Bat Masterson

  Summer, Winter, Men

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• I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

  John C. Maxwell

  Insecure, Risk, Trying

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “How High Will You Climb?: Determine Your Success by Cultivating the Right Attitude”, p.126, Thomas Nelson

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• I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

  Brian Mulroney

  Vision, Canada, Environment

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• The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Ideas, Style

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• I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.

  Sonny Rollins

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Brother, Kids, Play

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• Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

  Anne Frank

  Upset, Able, Hiding

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.28, Anchor

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• When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

  Anne Frank

  Writing, Sorrow, Care

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.132, Hamilton Books

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