Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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"What we feel, think and are determined in large part by our viscera and ductless glands."

- Aldous Huxley

Awareness

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

- Aldous Huxley

Awareness

"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical orientation."

- Aldous Huxley

Compassion

"Experience Is Not What Happens To You, It Is What You Do With What Happens To You."

- Aldous Huxley

Personal Growth

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."

- Aldous Huxley

Personal Growth

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"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"Vision is not what your eyes see, but an image that your brain comprehends."

- Touko Aozaki

Insight

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’"

- Steven Wright

Insight

"The shell of an oyster only hides the pearl inside."

- Jack

Insight