Forgotten Thought

Intellectualizing chaos

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”It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?”

—Norm MacDonald

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"If you are building and marketing something that's an extension of who you are, no one can compete with you."

— Naval Ravikant

Authenticity creates a league of your own.

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“Good is the enemy of Great”

— Jim Collins

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In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.

— Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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Misfortune weighs most heavily on those who expect nothing but good fortune.

– Seneca

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“Humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and ‘never enough’ has helped us as a species.”

— Rainn Wilson

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أيها الراكب الميمم أرضي

أقري من بعضي السلام لبعضي

إن جسمي كما علمت بأرض

وفؤادي ومالكيه بأرض

قُدر البين بيننا فافترقنا

وطوى البين عن جفوني غمضي

قد قضى الله بالفراق علينا

فعسى باجتماعنا سوف يقضي!

— عبد الرحمن بن معاوية ( الداخل )

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“Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination.”

— Dan Miller

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"أتعرف ياغسّان مامصير الحكايات التي لانكتبها؟ إنها تصبح ملكاً لأعدائنا"

— إبراهيم نصر الله

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The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

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"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."

— Anthony Hopkins

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'I'm not addicted to gambling. Don't be ridiculous. I'm addicted to hope!"

— Norm MacDonald

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe

Abraham Lincoln

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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The secret to life is knowing that you will not figure out everything.”

— Phil Stutz

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“Nothing is as healing as the human touch”

— Bobby Fischer

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عندما كنت في العشرين في عمري، كنت أتطلع الى الثلاثين باعتبارها نهاية لشرودي العقلي والجسدي، والآن بعد أن أصبحت في الثلاثين من عمري، لم أعد أتطلع إلى شيئ، لأنني أعلم أن الأمور ستستمر بهذه الطريقة.

‏وجيه غالي، يوميات ٢٢ نوفمبر ١٩٦٥م