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Our most precious gift is our brain. It is what allows us to learn, love, think, create, and even to experience joy. It is the gateway to our emotions, to our capacity for deeply experiencing life, to our ability to have lasting intimacy.
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“I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Butterflies have often been used as a metaphor for freedom. Turning every single hobby into a hustle is akin to walking around with a cyanide-filled jar to kill and pin every butterfly you see. Sometimes it’s better to just enjoy the chaos of your creative flow without trying to capture and catalyze it.”
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“It is human to be angry, but childish to be controlled by anger.”
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“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“Wild fury and righteous anger stirs up in the hearts of men. Driving them to action, to battle, to fight. Hopefully, it’s tempered with the code, with the order. Fury must be kept in check, and be used to propel justice, to free the oppressed, to protect.”
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