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“the deep, pure blue stirs on one’s lips a smile, innocent as itself; like the clouds over the sky, and, as it were, with them, happy memories pass in slow procession over the soul”
― Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Sketches from a Hunter's Album

“In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.”
― Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

“Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.”
― Bill Price, The Best Service is No Service: How to Liberate Your Customers from Customer Service, Keep Them Happy, and Control Costs

“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu

“The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.”
― Brian Sutton-Smith

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“Wearing a skirt would be so impractical if I needed to bury bodies in the woods when people got in my way.”
― Harper L. Woods, The Coven

“There is no God, child. There’s religion but there’s no God of theirs. Their religion tells that we will get our reward in the end. However, it apparently doesn’t say anything about their punishment. But when we’re around them, we believe in God. Oh, Lawdy Lawd, we’s be believin’. Religion is just a controlling tool they employ and adhere to when convenient.”
― Percival Everett, James

“IF A GOD IS A THING THAT HAS ABSOLUTE POWER OVER us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and pasts that become gods and nightmares that do, as well. As I age I learn that there are more gods than I'll ever know, and yet I have to watch for all of them, or else they can use me or I can lose them without even realizing it.”
― Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors