Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
​― Paul Gallico

​Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. --Paul Gallico

​"History is for human self-knowledge ... the only clue to what man can do is what man has done."
— R. G. Collingwood

"Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love... Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding."
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—Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

—Anne Frank
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“A weakness of all human beings is trying to do too many things at once.” 
—Henry Ford

"Two things cannot happen at once; it is impossible. It is easy to imagine that two things are happening at once, because our journey back and forth between the two may be very speedy. But even then we are doing only one thing at a time. 

"The idea of mindfulness is to slow down the fickleness of jumping back and forth. We have to realize that we are not extraordinary mental acrobats. We are not all that well trained. And even an extraordinarily well-trained mind could not manage that many things at once--not even two. But because things are very simple and direct, we can focus on, be aware and mindful of, one thing at a time. That one-pointedness, that bare attention, seems to be the basic point." 
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— Chogyam Trungpa, from "The Four Foundations of Mindfulness Meditation"