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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.Chinese Proverb
Never underestimate your own ignorance.Albert Einstein, speech
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!Henry Ford
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.Helen Keller
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.