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    “As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be—it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.”

    Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, via The Daily Stoic (Page 237)

      “People always wonder if they’re too old to do XYZ. It has been said that every 7 years, each cell in your body has been entirely replaced. Biology is my worst subject, so that could be wrong. But 7 is a magic number. It takes approximately 7 years to get 10,000 hours in to something. In any period of 7 years, I guarantee anyone you know will look back and say “Boy did I change.” It is never too late to 100% reinvent yourself. 21 to 28 still leaves most of your life. 42 to 49 still leaves nearly half of your life. Between 21 and 49 you will have lived 4 lives. That’s mastery in 4 different fields in the prime of your life. That’s important.”

      Jordan Allen, Quora

        “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”

        Theodore Isaac Rubin, via Sunbeams (Page 127)

          “I never dreamed of being a Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocked mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.”

          Peter Altenberg, via Sunbeams (Page 126)

            “Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.”

            Lillian Hellman, The Autumn Garden, via Sunbeams (Page 125)

              “But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here—the extraordinary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.”

              Annie Dillard, via Sunbeams (Page 126)

                “Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.”

                Jacques Barzun, via Sunbeams (Page 126)

                  “One windy day two monks were arguing about a flapping banner. The first said, ‘I say the banner is moving, not the wind.’ The second said, ‘I say the win is moving, not the banner.’ A third monk passed by and said, ‘The wind is not moving. The banner is not moving. Your minds are moving.”

                  Zen parable, via Sunbeams (Page 125)

                    “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

                    Ralph Waldo Emerson, via Sunbeams (Page 125)

                      “Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.”

                      Anaïs Nin, via Sunbeams (Page 125)