"We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too."

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Source : Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.43, Dell

Michael J. Gelb

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“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

Source : Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.201, John Wiley & Sons
“Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal.”
“But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.”
“Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.
“It is part of a sailor's life to die well.”
“We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.”

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