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“We spend a lot of time designing the bridge, but not enough time thinking about the people who are crossing it.” - Prabhjot Singh, Director of Systems Design at the Earth Institute

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“It is urgent to live enchanted.”
— Valter hugo mãe

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“The luminous & shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism & disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days.”
— ​Nick Cave

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“Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.”
— ​Arthur Koestler

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“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”
— Alain de Botton

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“Good & evil both increase at compound interest. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”
— C. S. Lewis

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“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius

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‘Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it’ - Mark Twain & ‘You can forgive without reconciling’ - Desmond Tutu. Marina Cantacuzino MBE (The Forgiveness Project)

[Alex Powell @AlexPowellSZZ]

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

— Māori proverb

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When entitlement appears without contribution, you clarify early.

Calm correction on Day 1 earns more respect than anger on Day 10.

Strength isn’t loud. It’s precise.

- Stephen Newton (Founder & CEO, Elixirr)

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"you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world" - @theJayAlto

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"I'm obsessed with the idea that someone, somewhere, is having the best day of their life right now. A proposal, a baby's first laugh, a song they'll never forget. Today is that day for someone. It makes me so happy." - @Timmysofine

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"Healthy relationships are not conflict free, they are repair rich." — Unknown

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"I pretend I died &asked God to send me back to Earth so I can swim in lakes again & see mountains & get my heart broken & love my friends & cry in the bathroom & go grocery shopping 1000 more times & that I promised I would never forget the miracle of being here" @arthoesunshine

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"When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you’re merely trying to saw sawdust."
— Fred Fuller Shedd, as quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

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“Lightly, child, lightly. You’ve got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly.”
— Aldous Huxley

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“I no longer need the armor; my softness is the strongest part of me.”
— Brianna Wiest

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“This world is full of conflicts & full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can … reconcile and embrace the whole mess, & that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah.’” Leonard Cohen

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“Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.”
— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“Real communication happens when we are present, not when we are merely connected.”
— Peter Senge