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Change Your World By Changing Yourself

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy
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Being Playful Allows for Unlimited Possibility

To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion.
To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.

James P. Carse
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It’s Not What You Know But What You Synthesize

The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It’s how well you synthesize.

Adam Grant
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Looking Back Everything’s Different

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.

C.S. Lewis
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Allowing Ourselves Time to Grow Into What We Can’t Express Yet

So we should allow ourselves some time to grow into some of the ideas that we intuitively know are beautiful or important in some way but we can’t intellectually express yet.

Vicky Zhao
An ode to taking notes in Obsidian
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Suffering From Wrong Perceptions

Much of our suffering comes from wrong perceptions. To remove that hurt, we have to remove our wrong perception.

Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Creating New “Anchors” of Stability

We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots – religion, nation, community, family, or profession – are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.

Alvin Toffler
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Life At Its Best

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Carl Rogers
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Stepping Out of Our Way

You have to let the idea of yourself get out of the way of yourself.

Ayishat Akanbi
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Dying To Live

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski