"Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat."

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Source : "Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game". Book by Larry W. Phillips, 1999.

Hakuin Ekaku

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“I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.”
“The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.”
“We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.139, Penguin
“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.”
“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”
“The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated both by agitation and by parliamentary means. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.”
“Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.”
“If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.”

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