Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 11, 2020
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
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Patricia Moyes  
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)  
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
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Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959  
The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990  

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