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“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
― Peter De Vries

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
― Albert Einstein

“There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The main character of any living system is openness.”
― Ilya Prigogine

“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Children express what parents repress”
― Ronald Wopereis, Bilocality and the Inner World of Attention

“What you want to give most is what you want to receive most, and vice versa.”
― Ronald Wopereis, Bilocality and the Inner World of Attention

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
― Mario Andretti

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." and so in you the child your mother lives on and through your family continues to live... so at this time look after yourself and your family as you would your mother for through you all she will truly never die.”
― Osho

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.”
― Bert Hellinger

“But feel what happens in the soul when you imagine children saying to their parents, "What you gave me, first of all, wasn't the right thing, and secondly, it wasn't enough. You still owe me." What do children have from their parents when they feel that way? Nothing. And what do the parents have from their children? Also nothing. Such children cannot separate from their parents. Their accusations and demands tie them to their parents so that, although they are bound to their parents, the children have no parents. They then feel empty, needy and weak.

This is the second Order of Love, that children take what their parents give in addition to life as it comes.”
― Bert Hellinger

“My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.”
― Paul Dunn

“The difference between a vision and a hallucination is the number of people who can see it.”
― Terry Paulson

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“It is ironical that, in the very field in which Science has claimed superiority to Theology, for example - in the abandoning of dogma and the granting of absolute freedom to criticism - the positions are now reversed.
Science will not tolerate criticism of special relativity, while Theology talks freely about the death of God, religionless Christianity, and so on.”
― Herbert Dingle

“If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?”
― Stuart Harris

“Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.”
― Anthony Storr

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.”
― Max De Pree

“You know what they say about consultants, don't you? They know all the moves in the Kama Sutra but don't know any women.”
― Charles Allen

“Freedom is about stopping the past.”
― Lawrence Lessig

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
― Benjamin Brewster

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“If you feel frustration then it means you are working on somebody else's problem.

Feeling frustration simply means it is NOT your problem. ”
― Ronald Wopereis, Bilocality and the Inner World of Attention

“Conflict can only happen if there is something in common.”
― Ronald Wopereis, Bilocality and the Inner World of Attention