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Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
Mignon McLaughlin

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
TS Eliot

One of the deep seecrets of Life (…) is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll

There are times when you are overwhelmed by the sensation that nothing is going right for you. But it is important to understand that there is no law that obliges you to be relentlessly ground down by fate. Only those who forget that the spirit lives in them are subject to unrelenting fate. Whatever your […]

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
Steve Jobs

To study dance is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
A Zen based proverb

One must want nothing to be different — not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not only bear what is necessary, but to love it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The modern self cannot be fully or properly appreciated without its burried life, its ancient grounding, its formation through inherited ideas and images.
Simon Goldhill

People think that they can clear up profound matters if they consider them deeply, but they exercise perverse thoughts and come to no good because they do their reflecting with only self-interest at the center.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Completely true to nature!’ – what a lie: How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bit of nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich Nietzsche