The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

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It's all in the mind.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

All great and precious things are lonely.

It's all in the mind.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.