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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it in himself. Galileo
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Einstein

The greatest experience we can have is the mysterious. Einstein

Explanation: The etymology (origin of meaning) for mysterious is mystsis, an ancient Greek word meaning: the opening and closing of the eyes of the crustaceans. The crustaceans (clams, crabs, lobsters) possess the ability to sense the high and low tidal fluctuations. If you take a hermit crab and transport it miles inland, it will sleep at the low tide and wake at the high tide (far removed from the ocean).The Greeks, noting this innate ability to sense that which cannot be seen, created the word mystsis to refer to fundamental natural forces that human beings cannot detect. So Einstein was saying that connecting with the mysterious opens us to the primordial forces of life.

Begin difficult things while they are easy.

Do great things when they are small.

The difficult things of the world must once have been easy.

The great things must once have been small. A thousand mile journey begins with one step. Lao-Tsu

Life is a series of unending changes. To resist will only cause unhappiness. Live and let live and let things flow as they will. Lao-Tsu

When a person is happy, luck appears everywhere in his life because luck is a self-created state and comes from a quality of the inner being and an inseparable spark of the spirit which contains infinite force in its existence.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali

People are always blaming circumstance for what they are.

I do not believe in circumstances.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten tines more work. George Bernard Shaw

All urges are blind save when there is knowledge. And all knowledge is vain save when there is work. And all work is empty save when there is love. And when you work with love, you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another. And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy. Work is love made visible. Kahil Gibran

The more sensitive you are, the more violent you can become. Where does aggression come from? Violence is generated in those who feel extremes more strongly than other people.

If you’re born a sensitive kid in a world where honesty and humility are considered weak qualities, you’re not encouraged to live close to your nature. Therefore the most vulnerable kids need a game face on to protect a fragile interior. Karate Black Belt Champion of 26 titles

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