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- You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
- What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- ...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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