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I was born cross-eyed. I could
see only large patterns, houses, trees, and outlines of people - and all
colouring was blurred. I could see two dark areas on human faces, but I
could not see a human eye or a teardrop or a human hair. Not until I was
four years old, 1899, was it discovered that my cross-eyedness was caused
by my being abnormally farsighted. Lenses fully corrected my vision. Despite
my new ability to apprehend details, my childhood's spontaneous dependence
only upon big patterns has persisted.
Buckminster Fuller |
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I went to the doctor,
I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children,
I drank from the fountain.
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked
line.
The less I seek my source for some definitive,
The closer I am to fine.
The Indigo Girls |
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Watch your thought, they become
words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character,
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw |
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All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day
are dangerous men, for they may act on their dream with open eyes,
to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence |
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| We who have lived in concentration
camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread.
They may have been few in
number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from
a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude
in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
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To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent
persons
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest
critics
and endure the betrayal of false
friends;
To appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed
easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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