“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
— Jack Kornfield
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Embrace Your Dreams
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
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New Distractions
“There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed.”
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Earning A Livelihood
“The daily work of earning a livelihood affords particular satisfaction when it has been selected by free choice.. And yet as a path to happiness work is not valued very highly by persons. They do not run after it as they do after other opportunities for gratification.”
–Sigmund Freud
Omnipotence
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”