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    Ryan Holiday
    “You love it because it’s all fuel.”
    ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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    Ryan Holiday
    “Each time, you’ll learn something. Each time, you’ll develop strength, wisdom, and perspective. Each time, a little more of the competition falls away. Until all that is left is you: the best version of you.”
    ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “Among life’s cruellest truths is this one: wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition.”
    ― Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.”
    ― Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “Indeed, thinking about the future can be so pleasurable that sometimes we’d rather think about it than get there.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “when we are selecting, we consider the positive attributes of our alternatives, and when we are rejecting, we consider the negative attributes.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “anticipating unpleasant events can minimize their impact.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “A permanent present—what a haunting phrase.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “We don't just treasure our memories; we are our memories”
    ― Daniel Todd Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
    tags: memories-quotes
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed.”
    ― Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “We use our eyes to look into space and our imaginations to look into time.”
    ― Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “We expect the next car, the next house or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn’t”
    ― Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “We are not merely spectators of the world but investors in it,”
    ― Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine—ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn’t and has never been, but as it might be.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Daniel Todd Gilbert
    “Small children cannot say what they want to be later because they don’t really understand what later means.”
    ― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: excuse, improvement, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, respect
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: improvement, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leadership, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, success
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    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E. B. White
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    Edward Gibbon
    “We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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    Albert Einstein
    “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational, self-improvement, self-knowledge
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    Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
    ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    tags: inspirational, positive-attitude, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-improvement
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Idowu Koyenikan
    “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”
    ― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
    tags: communal, communal-life, communality, community, community-building, community-development, cooperate, cooperation, cooperation-and-attitude, group-work, power, team, team-building, team-management, team-spirit, teammates, teams, teamwork, work-together, working-together, working-together-as-one
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    Aldo Leopold
    “Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
    ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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