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Do one thing every day that scares you.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

Maya Angelou
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
Maya Angelou

J.D. Salinger
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Aldous Huxley
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
Aldous Huxley

Albert Einstein
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
Albert Einstein

William  James
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
William James

Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
Albert Einstein

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

William  James
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James

“Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”
Woody Allen

Joseph Campbell
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

George Bernard Shaw
“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
George Bernard Shaw

Eleanor Roosevelt
“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

Sigmund Freud
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
Sigmund Freud

H.L. Mencken
“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

David Eddings
“When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.”
David Eddings

G. Stanley Hall
“Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.”
G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion

Mark Twain
“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”
Mark Twain

Tom Stoppard
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
Tom Stoppard

Albert Einstein
“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
Albert Einstein

Aldous Huxley
“But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”
Aldous Huxley

William  James
“I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.”
William James

Marie Antoinette
“But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?”
Marie Antoinette

Aleister Crowley
“I am perplexed”
Aleister Crowley

Asa Don Brown
“The life of a child is precious.”
Asa Don Brown

“Even the tiny protests help”
Patsy Mink

Steven Magee
“The reason why COVID-19 was so bad in the USA is attributed to a lack of pandemic preparation by the government.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“The failure of the Disability and Workers Compensation systems can be associated with a massive number of suicides.”
Steven Magee

“Take note of signs from the universe, and never forget to trust your intuition.”
Ndumiso Shandu

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