https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight

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"I tell her I don't see a scarred woman when I look at her; I think she's beautiful. She thanks me for saying so, but I can tell the compliment rang hollow. One comment from a stranger can't reclaim years spent hating the body you live in ( Read more... )

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Soren Kierkegaard

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato

PLAYBOY: If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living?KUBRICK: Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as ( Read more... )

"Life is a short tablecloth."
-Rabbi Yisroel Salanter

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21 Suggestions for Success1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery ( Read more... )