Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you’re not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn’t planned or counted on.
Henri Nouwen
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
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I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn’t my No. 1 priority.
Carroll Shelby
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I never thought a career as a musician was possible.
Billie Eilish
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person.
Aretha Franklin
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Stand-up is like a row boat: it’s fun and romantic when you’re choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it’s not as enjoyable; that’s survival.
Demetri Martin
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You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
Michael Bloomberg
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Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.
Richard P. Feynman
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