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- Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
- True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
- Peter Minard
- Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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