"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Leissner, Larry on confusion
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"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."

Maxim, Cadet on risk
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

Jung, Carl on adversity
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"An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead."

Jung, Carl on egotism   

"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."

Jung, Carl on emotions
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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality"

Jung, Carl on achievement
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Jung, Carl on imitation
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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."

Jung, Carl on individuality
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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

Jung, Carl on light
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

Jung, Carl on mistakes   

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Jung, Carl on sanity
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"If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."

Jung, Carl on knowledge
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

Kerouac, Jack on apathy
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"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on mind
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"You are only what you are when no one is looking."

Edwards, Robert C. on appearance
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"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao-Tzu on beginning
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"To lead people walk behind them."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."

Lao-Tzu on giving
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"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

Lao-Tzu on desire
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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

Lao-Tzu on love
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"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

Lao-Tzu on change
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"Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows."

Lao-Tzu on travel   

"As you think, so shall you become."

Lee, Bruce on thoughts and thinking
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"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Lee, Bruce on change
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"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."

Lee, Bruce on happiness
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"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

Lee, Bruce on simplicity
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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Perls, Fritz Dr. on expectation
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"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

Sarnoff, David on anger
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

Cock, Barnett on committees and meetings
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

Lao-Tzu on virtue
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"Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal."

Einstein, Albert on technology
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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