"Itâ€™s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel youâ€™re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you donâ€™t yet see the light."

-- James Arthur Ray

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“If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them?”
“The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.600, Simon and Schuster
“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
“How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?”
“We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.”

Source : Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1904). “The Outlook”
“The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.”

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