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If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he read more
If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and read more
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
