[#duality, #light]
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures." (James Thurber)
[#wisdom, #thought]
"Thinking and doing, doing and thinking, these are the sum of all wisdom. Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road." (Goethe)
[#mastery, #strength]
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." (John Keats)
[#character, #mastery]
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#belief]
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." (Sydney J. Harris)
[#feelings, #thought]
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." (Jean de La Bruyère)
[#patience]
"To endure the unendurable is true endurance." (Japanese saying)
[#simplicity]
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
[#action, #love]
"The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for." (Thomas Chalmers)
[#knowledge]
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." (Epicurus)
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