"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."

-- Wilhelm Steinitz

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“When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.”
“Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.”
“Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from May 16, 2015
“Run to the rescue with love/and peace will follow”
“As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.”
“He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. Thatâ€™s right â€” something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, thatâ€™s never happened before.”
“The truth is, part of me is every age. Iâ€™m a three-year-old, Iâ€™m a five-year-old, Iâ€™m a thirty-seven-year-old, Iâ€™m a fifty-year-old. Iâ€™ve been through all of them, and I know what itâ€™s like. I delight in being a child when itâ€™s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when itâ€™s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
“When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.”

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