“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
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“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
— Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
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“Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.”
— Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers
“It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
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“Choose to do more than just exist; choose to live.”
— Steve Maraboli, “Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience”
“If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.”
— Bodhidharma
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“It’s all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.”
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire