Global life metaphors; ways of thinking that shape your map of perception, and the way you think about life.

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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“Self-education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

“Recompense kindness with kindness, injury with justice.”

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”

“The superior man does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.”

“To correct the biggest misunderstanding of the ages: Treat others as they wish to be treated, not as you wish to be treated.”

“Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

“Try to become the kind of person others do not normally encounter in this world.”

“Sometimes our minds open up to the enormous possibilities we could achieve, they forget the a moment our own imposed limits. These are the moments to grab and remember and work towards.”

“Our greatest fear should not be that our lives may come to an end, but rather, that they may never begin.”

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds - and fanatics. It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”