"Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on world   

"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on abortion
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"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

Hogan, Ben on joy
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"All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it."

Field, Eugene on joy   

"If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap."

Buck, Glen on joy   

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer."

Angelis, Barbara De on focus
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"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

Brown, Les on focus
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"Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order."

Byron, Lord on focus
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"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map."

Calloway, Wayne on focus   

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."

Cecil, Richard on focus   

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on focus
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"Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on focus
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"To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."

Jenner, Bruce on focus
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"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

Johnson, Samuel on focus   

"All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing"

Leschak, Peter M. on focus
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"Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus."

Lewis, Carol on focus
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"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on focus
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"Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader."

Meyer, Paul J. on focus
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"What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it."

Mitchell, W. on focus
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"The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through."

Overstreet, Harry A. on focus
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"It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any."

Pliny The Younger on focus   

"Think of many things, do only one."

Proverb on focus
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"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."

Robbins, Anthony on focus
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"The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything."

Santayana, George on focus   

"Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game."

Saying on focus   

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time."

Smiles, Sydney on focus   

"When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can."

Smith, Stan on focus   

"To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious."

Steffes, Kent on focus   

"You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it."

Terence on focus   

"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."

Augustine, James on birth   

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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."

Freud, Sigmund on birth
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"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation."

Freud, Sigmund on happiness
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"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."

Freud, Sigmund on neurosis
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"Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?"

Proust, Marcel on neurosis
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"The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity."

Proust, Marcel on habit
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"Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it."

Proust, Marcel on neurosis   

"To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach for another is to risk involvement. To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To believe is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. They may avoid suffering an d sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free."

Ward, William A. on   

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. on planning
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"Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."

Ward, William A. on leadership
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