Thrive Quotes - Page 24

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

  Rumi

  Home, Going Away, Moving Away

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 20: "In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories", p. 206, 1995.

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• The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Live Life, Teaching

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• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Country, Facts, Polls

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Angel, Men, Pigs

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• If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

  Susan Rice

  Jobs, Past, Opportunity

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• Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

  Ayn Rand

  Dream, Happy Life, Greatness

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1850, Penguin

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Knowledge, Giving

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• Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Leave Me Alone, Reason, Deny

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.9, Penguin

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• If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Ninety Nine, People

  "The Roosevelt I Knew". Book by Frances Perkins, p. 5, 1946.

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• You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

  John Podhoretz

  Israel, Two, Roots

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• Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Strength, Power, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

  Alan Watts

  Technology, Hands, People

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.35, Souvenir Press

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• Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.

  Cameron Dokey

  Needs, Accepted, Sooner Or Later

  Cameron Dokey (2009). “Winter's Child”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Secret, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社

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• He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

  Ted Hughes

  Interesting, Attention, Born

  Ted Hughes (1975). “Season songs”, Viking Pr

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• Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Business, Moving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.

  Etgar Keret

  Men, Wind, Weather

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• The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

  Frank Herbert

  Purpose, Argument

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.73, Penguin

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• No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Problem, Oppression

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Church, Persecution, Martyrdom

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Endurance, Capacity

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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