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To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years,…

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For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them…
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or…
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.…
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,…
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results…
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or…
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to…
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define…
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human…
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

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I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself… — Napoleon Hill
The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is… — Unknown Author
History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real… — Olof Palme
We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it. — Rudolf Dreikurs
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious… — Albert Schweitzer
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa
When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all.… — Charles Spurgeon
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good. — S. Truett Cathy
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun
A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to… — Thomas Chalmers
The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing… — Laozi

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