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- If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
- Natalie Goldberg
- We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
- James Carroll
- We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
- Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
- Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
- Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
- Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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