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WAYNE A mother can but guide … then step aside—I knew I could not say, “This is the way that you should go.”

For I could not forsee what paths might beckon you to unimagined heights that I might never know.

Yet, always in my heart I realized That you would touch a star . . . I’m not surprised!

—Hazel Dyer (poem written by Wayne Dyer's mother Hazel to his son Wayne)

Latin adage meaning "make haste slowly" — It encourages taking a balanced approach to life and work - urging you to proceed with urgency and purpose, but with enough patience and care to get the job done right the first time.

—Festina lente

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Those who can not conceive friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a friend.

The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways, nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.

In each of my friends, there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself, I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence, true friendship is the least jealous of love. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away.

—C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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There can be no offense heavier than that of him in whom such a sacred trust has been reposed, who sells it for his own gain and enrichment. He is worse than the thief, for the thief robs the individual, while the corrupt official plunders an entire city or state.

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

―Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty. —Virginia Satir

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The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

—James Truslow Adams, who coined the term "American Dream," The Epic of America

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The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities.

The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.

—Carl Jung

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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

—President Gerald Ford, in an address to a joint session of Congress (August 12, 1974)

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

—Abraham Lincoln

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My grandma once told me something that stopped me cold.

She said: Baby, come sit down for a minute. Let me tell you something life showed me after all these years.

Most of the people you see every day right now… in about five years, they’re going to be strangers.

Not because something bad happened.

Not because somebody fell out.

Life just keeps moving.

The coworker you laugh with every day at lunch?

Y’all probably won’t even work in the same building in five years.

That neighbor you wave to every morning?

One of y’all might move away.

Even some friendships that feel permanent right now… sometimes they were only meant for a season.

That’s just the way life goes, baby.

And once you realize that, something powerful happens.

You stop bending yourself into shapes trying to keep everybody comfortable.

You stop shrinking just so nobody feels uncomfortable with your growth.

Because the truth is… most of the people you’re worried about disappointing won’t even be part of your life in a few years.

So live your life.

Start over if you need to.

Choose your peace.

Follow what’s calling you.

Because five years from now… the one person still waking up in your life every single day will be you.

—The 5-Year Stranger Theory

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Characterizing sensitivity as a byproduct of a ‘feminine side’ is a dangerous, flat, and misplaced framing of a non-gendered human behavior.

—Kier Gaines

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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples."

Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

—Alan Watts

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A Chinese term describing hyper-competition and, ultimately, a futile, self-defeating rat race where increased effort yields decreasing returns. It captures the exhaustion, anxiety, and burnout felt by people trapped in intense, irrational competition for limited rewards, such as in education and employment.

—Neijuan (内卷), or "involution,"