The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.

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"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

- Alan Watts

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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

- Alan Watts

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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

- Alan Watts

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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

- Alan Watts

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"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."

- Alan Watts

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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

Growth

"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

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"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

Growth

"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."

- Tony Robbins

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"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

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