Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it,
than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes
to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or
despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with
an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision
to recognize it as such.
-- Henry Miller
than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes
to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or
despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with
an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision
to recognize it as such.
-- Henry Miller
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- My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems,
and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch.... - My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of
human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly
vulnerable.
... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch.... - One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of
Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out.... - Picard: "Earth was once a violent planet too. At times, the chaos threatened
the very fabric of life, but like you, we evolved.
We found other ways to handle our conflict. But I think no one can deny that the seed.... - None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it
necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert
-- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows
his job.
A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is.... - None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary
to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one
ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is.... - There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to
recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to
let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.... - Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who feel that we know everything, especially when we discover that everything they know and everything we know does not match.
