#oft

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. ↗

#always #certainty #clarity #fascinating #finds

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. ↗

— Jones Very

#current #direction #ever #external #flow

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#away #change #chief #environment #get

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#breaking #down #help #i #known

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ↗

— Robert Collier

#believe #comes #dominating #false #mind

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. ↗

— Judith Wright

#counterproductive #finishing #growth #having #instead

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ends #friendship #never #often

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#fear #more #often #pretend #really

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ↗

— Confucius

#constant #happiness #must #often #who

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth. ↗