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“There are three things in the world that are unclear to me, and a fourth one I do not comprehend: the path of an eagle in the sky, a snake on a rock, a ship at sea, and the path of a man to the heart of a woman.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, other stories and novellas

“Those who have not been fathers, cannot know a father’s feelings.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Liza,” she said, “how perfect are the works of the creation. I have passed upwards of sixty years in admiration of the blessings of providence, and I still find new causes for our gratitude.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“There is something in a man's fate that has eyes that remember whether he has someone to come home to or not.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Live and Remember

“Each woman who loves is a queen, because love is beautiful!”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, other stories and novellas

“the daily occupation of a person serves as a mirror to display the propensities of the heart.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“in great wisdom there was great sadness, and that he who multiplied knowledge also multiplied grief.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, other stories and novellas

“The banks of life cannot hold my love, which is as broad as the sea.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Seven Who Were Hanged

“Hunger, when there is something to cure it with, is easy to cure.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Live and Remember

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant,” Albert Einstein once said. “We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“But the mysteries which surround the tomb do not worry the heart of the upright and good.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea. Ignominy thirsts for respect.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“People retired from the world burn their candles here, even as they tirelessly pray for the world.”
― Nikolai Leskov, Peacock

“It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“My dear papa! I much prefer a smart man of small height than a big dumb idiot!”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, other stories and novellas

“The wish of a beautiful woman is a law for the rest of the world.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, other stories and novellas

“It is a well-known fact that kings and clowns frequently call each other cousin.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, other stories and novellas

“A rock is heavy and sand is weighty too, but the anger of a fool is heavier than both.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet, other stories and novellas

“It is the features of the years that makes up the face of the century.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“Moral sentiments derive from empathy, and moral reflections take thinking and focus. One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.19 The more distracted we are, the less we can exhibit attunement and caring.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“The ability of the powerful to dismiss inconvenient people (and inconvenient truths) by paying no attention has become the focus of social psychologists, who are finding relationships between power and the people we pay most and least attention to.4”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“In any interaction the more high-power person tends to focus his or her gaze on the other person less than others, and is more likely to interrupt and to monopolize the conversation—all signifying a lack of attention.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“An epidemic exemplifies system dynamics. The more you can think systemically, the more you can follow the path of coins, art, religion, or disease. Understanding how coins travel along trade routes parallels analyzing the spread of a virus.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“The dimension of time is a huge problem—if the pace of global warming were accelerated to a few years instead of over centuries, people would pay more attention. But it’s like the national debt: I’ll leave it to my grandchildren—I’m sure they’ll think of some solution.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“World Health Organization estimates that outdoor air pollution causes about 3.2 million deaths yearly worldwide.15”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“Posner’s group proposes that attention training should be part of the education of every child, giving a boost in learning across the board.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“The sweet spot for smart decisions, then, comes not just from being a domain expert, but also from having high self-awareness.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence