What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking it is painful, and that when we imagine we have found it, we don't like it.

Alan Watts

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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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