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Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what…

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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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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when… — Aldous Huxley
How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls!… — Basilea Schlink
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more… — Doris Lessing
I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going… — Queen Latifah
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves… — Anne Roiphe
Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old… — Rumi
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be… — Shunryu Suzuki
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. — Alain de Botton
Our competition in life is solely with our old self. — Boyd K. Packer
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be… — Unknown Author

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