"Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy."

-- John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

#Giving Up Quotes #Humor Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House
“Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call the entire civilized world back to a more authentic mode of being.”
“It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.”
“Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form.You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?”
“This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”
“Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become despondent in temptations, then, but give all the more thanks to God that He thus brings you to what is hidden in your heart - the knowledge of yourself - and wishes you to be corrected and be saved.”
“A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.”

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