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    “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ~ Dalai Lama, via Life Hack

      “The best way to change long-term behavior is with short-term feedback.” ~ Seth Godin

        “To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find Nirvana.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki

        Quick-fixes do not work.

          Quick-fixes do not work.

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          “Quick-fixes do not work.  All lasting inner change requires time and effort.  Persistence is the mother of personal change.  I’m not saying that it will take years to make profound changes in your life.  If you diligently apply the strategies I am sharing with you every day for only one month, you will be astonished at the results.  You will begin to tap into the highest levels of your own capacity and enter the realm of the miraculous.  But to reach this destination, you must not get hung up on the outcome.  Instead, enjoy the process of personal expansion and growth.  Ironically, the less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come.” ~ Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

            “Yet we are what we read.  We are the educators of our own personalities.  Certainly we have great influence in the crafting of our children.  If we brought half the intelligence to the making of souls that we bring to the making of machines, we would be people of character and imagination.  We would be sharp and therefore less inclined to kill and cheat each other.  We would know where to find the deep pleasures, so we would be less desperate for shallow entertainments and the ephemeral gratifications of gadgets.”

            Thomas Moore, Original Self | ★ Featured on this book list.

              “The way out of the dehumanizing effects of modern capitalism and industrialism is not to change the system but to read good books.”

              Thomas Moore, Original Self | ★ Featured on this book list.

                “We are a population that is satisfied with sound-bite news, instant and opinionated political analysis, manipulative popular psychology, and insubstantial novels and magazines.  At the same time, and understandably, we feel the absence of meaning and are speechless when we learn of atrocities in our society.  We don’t know how to think about them because we don’t know how to think, and we don’t know how to think because we don’t believe that thinking for its own sake is worthy of our attention.  We educate our children to make a good living rather than to become thinking persons, and often we honor as celebrities those who have not made a genuine contribution to society but who mirror our own madness.”

                Thomas Moore, Original Self | ★ Featured on this book list.