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Try to be surprised by something every day.


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For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.



Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.



A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.



Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.



And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.



If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.



The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.



Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.



Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.



Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.





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You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.



When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.

When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.



God is available in your thinking, impulses, and impressions on your mind, so login

God is available in your thinking, impulses, and impressions on your mind, so login



Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.



Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.



I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.



And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.



If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about it.

If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about it.



No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.



They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.




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