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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
 
You are a dynamic whole greater than the sum of your parts. By integrating your body, mind, and emotions through training, you reshape your life.
 
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
 
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself.
 
..the average child in our society generally prefers a safe, orderly, predictable, organized world, which he can count on, and in which unexpected, unmanageable or other dangerous things do not happen, and in which, in any case, he has all-powerful parents who protect and shield him from harm.
 
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.
 
I'm looking at Sue. Sue's looking at Tom. Tom's looking at Kathy.
 
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
 
All of us have a theory about human nature.
 
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.
 
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
 
I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.
 
ARCHITECTURE: The art of how to waste space.
 
What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
 
To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies.
 
PROFESSOR: A person whose job is to tell students how to solve the problems of life he avoided by becoming a professor.
 
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
 
Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.
 
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
 
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
 
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