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I spent the day sitting in my grass area beside the house today. A little meditation and then I made some wonderful food for myself on the out door grill. Although I was by myself it was a great experience

This is a good quote from Richard branson who is a very successful and wealthy man so he must have wisdom about achieving goals. if you only follow the rules you do not experience new and interesting things

Nothing in the world will ever be perfect and we can never achieve perfect things. But by constantly trying for perfection you will begin to achieve excellence and that will compound itself as you learn

The more we learn the more capable we become as leaders and because we have knowledge and experience which is becoming wisdom, other will look to us for advice and ideas. It is unavoidable, but it is a

Whenever you have a choice to be kind you should always choose that option. It is always better to be kind to people because it will be repaid many times over and they will pass it on to others. Your actions

Being able to create something from nothing and have it mean something to people is a beautiful thing and is what art is. Artists are able to take ideas from their head things that dont exist, and turn

This is a powerful idea, if people believe in bad ideas or institutions that hurt them, it is hard if not impossible to free them from this. I don’t think I would call them fools, but I understand and

I am surprised this quote came from the actor Keanu Reeves but it is very astute and clearly he is wiser than I gave him credit for. That is also a good lesson, do not judge people without knowing more

This is an interesting thought. We do not really have anyway to judge what will happen in the future and can only look to the past and past actions to try and decipher it. While we can try and plan for

This is a simple quote and idea that we can all apply to everything in our lives. If you dream big and set high goals, then you will work very hard to achieve them. Even if you don’t make your initial

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous people in the history of America and he said this quote, which shows how important a good family is to raising good people. We learn lots from our parents and

Science is a wonderful tool that allows us to organize our knowledge and make it easier to find facts and to learn about the world around us. But when you organize your life and the things you learn from

This is from plato so it is a very old quote that has survived many hundreds of years of human life. Ignorance is the main thing that causes evil and wickedness in our world, when people understand things

This is a very smart observation about the condition of our lives. We can only understand our lives when we look back at the past, but you cannot ever live in the past and must always continue moving forward.

If you have had a bad experience or fallen down metaphorically then you need to get up and dust yourself off and continue. If it is a really bad experience sometimes it can take a long time, but you must

If someone pretends to be happy, they can actually trick their brain into feeling happy, such as smiling even when you don't want to. However it goes the other way too and if you think negatively and imagine

This is a good quote, we do not have any extra bodies and the one you are born with is the only one you will ever use so if you take care of it you will live a happy and healthy life for much much longer.

I think it is very cool that someone as talented and prolific as Prince was interested in recieving good critiques from people he admired and considered smart. He was able to use these thoughts to better

People tell a lot more about themselves with the questions they ask than how they answer things and it is much smarter to judge them by that. We all can have the wrong answers and be misinformed sometimes

Every time progess happens in any field or with any skill it is because someone or something has strayed away from the normal practices and done something new. New experiences allow you to begin to progress