Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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George Bernard Shaw
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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Lewis Carroll
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
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Amit Ray
Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.
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Carroll Bryant
The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.
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Carroll Bryant
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