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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

Now it’s time to be on the road again.
The weather is great. The cars are ready and expectations are high.
Cross your fingers, nock on wood.

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 trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny. Of course, you will not be able to change very much to begin with – perhaps your path will veer by only one hundredth of a degree – but if you continue to work in the same direction, you will end by putting a whole solar system between you and fate. What is important is to tap the power of the spirit that is within you.
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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