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If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think itâs better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. âZeynab Izadyar
Every Decision Made About You And Your Opportunities Is Made In A Room Youâre Not In - Joanna Bloor, The Potentialist.
As the Buddha is said to have explained to a disciple:
âYou are one of those gems, and every person, every animal, every tree and plant, every insect, every speck of dust that floats up into a sunbeam and down onto a road, is a gem of the net of Indra. Every emotion that you feel, and all the feelings that all beings have ever felt, even thousands
... See moreThe tongue can paint what the eyes can't see. - Chinese Proverb
âPeople are trying to guess about your future potential, based on your past trajectory. [âŚ] If you donât provide your own chronicle of who you are, one will be given to you. Youâll assume whatever description the other party gives you, dictated by their biases, perceptions and attributions. Donât passively let others dictate your narrative, write
... See moreOur bodies are incredibly sophisticated truth-detection machines. - Martha Beck
The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we donât have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. - Virginia Wolf
âThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. â 1
âI am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long
... See moreThe first paragraph is from the play Man and Superman (1903) by Irish playwright, critic, and political activist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). It appears in the eloquent, thought-provoking (and lengthy: more than 11,400 words!) dedication, âEpistle Dedicatory to Arthur Bingham Walkley,â of the play. The second paragraph comes from one of his speeches (found in George Bernard Shaw: His Life and His Works by Archibald Henderson). Interestingly, as the Internet has a tendency to do, the first and second paragraphs are erroneously combined, as if they were one thought written by Shaw