The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin What use is a problem? Problems catching attention of creative people result in inventions, discoveries… […]
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You Just Have to Understand
We had long talks when I would still her forebodings by telling her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the most majestic construction of philosophic thought were so deprived. ~ The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous […]
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The trouble was that there was no road between me, the miserable failure, and me, the thin saint. So I retreated to eating and daydreaming. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 60-61). How do you get there? There’s enough male in […]
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ~ Mark Twain Resolution: a firm decision to do or not to do something. […]
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Laziness we would have called it. Absence of interest of habitual disinclination to exertion. Not only physical but mental, spiritual — pathological. Absence of affect producing boredom, rancor, apathy. Forgetting the good stuff, forgetting our responsibility. Look at a bloom, at […]
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