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| I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise. (Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. (Alan Watts) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. (Zen Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. (George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity") | [▲] | [▼] |
| To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness. (Fyodor Dostoevski) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. (Anaïs Nin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from the Underground") | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. (Lucille Ball) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. (William Shakespeare, "Coriolanus") | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. (Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. (St. Augustine) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. (Clifton Fadiman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. (Clifton Fadiman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. (William Shakespeare) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. (Douglas Adams) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. (Unknown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. (André Maurois) | [▲] | [▼] |