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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
 
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.
 
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
 
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
 
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
 
Time spent with friends makes a life happier; time spent with loved ones makes it more meaningful.
 
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
 
It's a profound privilege to die from stress related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious disease which is responsible for bringing lifestyle diseases to the fore - and these are exquisitely sensitive to stress.
 
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
 
There are no facts, only interpretations.
 
But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
 
Mindfulness thrives on the belief that the root of problem is to be found in individuals themselves, rather than in a socio-economic reality. Allegedly, it is not society that needs reform, but individuals who need to adapt, change, and improve.
 
The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.
 
The only place where I can go into my own world is in my journal. Everywhere else is the place where I go into the world of others.
 
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
 
For every major problem in this nation there is a simple solution--and it is wrong.
 
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
 
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
 
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
 
I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'.
 
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