Thrive Quotes

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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. — Pearl S. Buck
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from… — Plato
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often… — Plutarch
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell… — Ray Kurzweil
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite… — Richard Hugo
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God;… — Unknown Author
Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with… — Unknown Author
A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it. — Unknown Author
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep. — Unknown Author
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream… — Salman Rushdie
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. — Samuel Johnson
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear… — Seneca the Younger
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. — Seneca the Younger
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than… — Seneca the Younger
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone. — Arthur Eddington
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the… — Spider Robinson
To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position… — Sven Birkerts
I think work is the world's greatest fun. — Thomas A. Edison

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