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As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the attitude of the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a "science" of meaningful coincidences. The classical Chinese texts did not ask what causes what, but rather what "likes" to occur with what. ↗

— M.L. von Franz

#jung #jungian #man-and-his-symbols #synchronicity #attitude

Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspirational #social-class #courage

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#personal-quote #attitude

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good-natured #helpful #life #plenitude #richness

We need no language to laugh ↗

— Janaki Sooriyarachchi

#inspirational-attitude #life-lessons #attitude

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#better #ghosts #queen-of-the-dead #reason #attitude

To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing to have an open mind, and willing to take action! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#philosophy-of-life #positive-attitude #attitude

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it. ↗

— Epictetus

#control #philosophy #attitude

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#choices #decision #decisions #dejan-stojanovic #impossibility

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#barely #certain #could #fact #factories