Reflections for 2007

A friend sent me some quotes ... some are familiar, some are new but all ring true.

I've picked out the ones that speak to me ...

Have a great 2007.
-Martin.
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"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable"
Christopher Reeve
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"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms
-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way"
Viktor Frankl
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"You must have long-range goals
to keep from being frustrated by short-range failure"
Charles Nobel
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"Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are"
Ajahn Sumedho
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"You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least"
Ajahn Chah
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"One definition of insanity is to keep doing what you did before,
and expect different results"
Anonymous
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"Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service,
and have a definite object in life outside themselves
and their personal happiness"
Leo Tolstoy
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"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations,
nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine"
Fritz Perls
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"To fear death is to misunderstand life"
Anonymous
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"He who looks outside - dreams; he who looks within - awakens"
Carl Jung
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"Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat"
Lilly Tomlin
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"The highest mountain of all to overcome is
one's own preconceptions"
du Gabriel
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"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world"
Schopenhauer
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"
Socrates
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"A fool sees an enemy.
A wise man sees a lesson to be learned"
Anonymous
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"To be nobody but yourself,
in a world which is doing its best day and night
to make you like everybody else,
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight . . .
and never stop fighting"
E. E. Cummings
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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow"
Anonymous
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"All over the place,
from the popular culture to the propaganda system,
there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless,
that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume"
Noam Chomsky