#176 Joseph Campbell: Shedding Skin

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In reality, there is no such thing as a “should” or a “shouldn’t.” These are only thoughts that we impose onto reality. The mind is like a carpenter’s level. When the bubble is off to one side—“It shouldn’t be raining”—we can know that the mind is caught in its thinking. When the bubble is right in the middle—“It’s raining”—we can know that the surface level and the mind is accepting reality as it is. Without the “should” and “shouldn’t,” we can see reality as it is, and this leaves us free to act efficiently, clearly, and sanely. Asking “What’s the reality of it?” can help bring the mind out of its story, back into the real world.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

~ Douglas MacArthur Quotes

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

~ John Ruskin Quotes

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The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

~ Henry S. Haskins Quotes

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Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

~ Paula Poundstone Quotes

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Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

~ John Ruskin Quotes

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[Roark to Keating:] If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"

~ Ayn Rand Quotes from The Fountainhead

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Ask and you shall receive. You must, yourself, do the asking…Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

~ Walter Russell Quotes from The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

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That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not?

~ Timothy Ferriss Quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

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Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, "Do you want to make it or not?"

~ Russell Simmons Quotes from Do You!

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