"The best life is that which makes the best of life."

-- Ivan Panin

#Life Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.”
“My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.”
“You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.196, Penguin
“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.”
“I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.”
“Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition
“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”

Source : "Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek: with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, rtansl. by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, p. 225, 1850.
“When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.”

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