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• As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is.

  Marketa Irglova

  Long, Work Out, Expectations

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• If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Solitude, Thoughtlessness

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Past, Phones, People

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• The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.

  Thomas Reid

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.489, Georg Olms Verlag

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• It's only too late if you don't start now.

  Barbara Sher

  Too Late, Late

  "It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE". Book by Barbara Sher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 1999.

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• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  Tarsem Singh

  Zoos, Want, Monkeys

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• If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Happiness, Skills, Enjoy

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.28, Dell

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• In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Letting Go, Prayer, Giving Up

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• Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Cake

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• If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

  Pablo Picasso

  Air, Together, Stories

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• Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Answers

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• You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.

  Randy Gage

  Dream, Poor

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• For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

  George Herbert

  Ambition, Glorious Life, Trying

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.6

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• If you take a single word...and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.

  Sue Thoele

  Choices, Feelings, Growth

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• If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.

  Jon Gries

  Garden, Eden, Space

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2007.

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• If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Children, Sibling, Addiction

  "How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for coping with 'Challenging' Relatives". Book by Denise Lang, 1992.

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• If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Characters: Of The Gifts of Fortune," #49, 1688.

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• We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Foundation, Wells

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• Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

  Graham Sutherland

  Eye, Painting, Materials

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• In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

  Al-Ghazali

  Suffering, Sorrow, Affliction

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• Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, White Man

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110, 1863.

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• I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

  PSY

  Awkward, Style, Phrases

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• You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

  Leon Krier

  Intellectual, Needs, Want

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• My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

  Brion James

  Jobs, Done, Dialect

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