Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river … - A. A. Milne

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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

A. A. Milne

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.

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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

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Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

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It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. It's also that the philosophers are well-versed in the relevant empirical data, and the scientists are well-versed in the more abstract issues which are typically the central focus of philosophical work.

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