"This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind."

Maltz, Maxwell on mind
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"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel."

Keats, John on illusion   

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."

Hugo, Victor on idleness
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"Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape."

Peake, Mervyn on senses   

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants."

Lao-Tzu on art
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"The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn."

Toffler, Alvin on illiteracy
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"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."

Johnson, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben on happiness
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"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

Koestler, Arthur on genius
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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will."

Pythagoras on gossip
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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Schulz, Charles M. on worry
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"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."

Horace on fools and foolishness
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"A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

Johnson, Samuel on books - reading
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"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times."

Virgil on hope
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"I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."

Aeschylus on uncategorised   

"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on death
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"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."

Anderson, Poul on problems   

"Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on honesty
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"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

Hoffer, Eric on learning
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on uniqueness
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"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on time
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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."

Byron, Lord on fantasy
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Ovid on fate
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"Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches."

Bible on wisdom
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"Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me."

Pope, Alexander on mercy
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace."

Cicero, Marcus T. on home
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"There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise."

Hemans, Felicia D. on beauty   

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

Penn, William on silence
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

Waitley, Denis on children
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"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time   

"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good."

Johnson, Samuel on originality
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"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has"

Ashley-Pitt, Alan on crowds
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"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."

Edison, Thomas A. on thoughts and thinking
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Allen, Woody on physics
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"No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes."

Miller, Henry on innovation
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"They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream. "

Dowson, Ernest on uncategorised