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- It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
- The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
- J. H. Holmes
- No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.
- Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
- It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
- Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain
- Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
- Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 04-12-2006
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