No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

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Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

Winston Churchill

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus

The past is gone, never to come back. Whatever you did or could not do is history; you cannot go back in time to do or undo it. Brooding on the past is futile, so is being anxious about future. Focus on what you can do in the present because the present is creating your future.

The Ancient Sage

When you are feeling lost or confused... Just remember you are a cross-section of four-space.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Colson Whitehead

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