Two Thoughts (17 - 23 December)

Sunday, 17 December

Two thoughts from P.D. Ouspensky

"The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them."

“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”

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Monday, 18 December

Two thoughts from W. Timothy Gallwey

“Fighting the mind does not work. What works best is learning to focus it.”

“Forget should’s and experience is.”

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Tuesday, 19 December

Two thoughts from Pascal Bruckner

"An overblown conscience is an empty conscience."

“Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification.”

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Wednesday, 20 December

Two thoughts from Haruki Murakami

“Move from reason that observes to reason that acts.”

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

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Thursday, 21 December

Two thoughts from William Ernest Henley

"Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed."

"I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul."

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Friday, 22 December

Two thoughts from Donald Miller

"What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do."

"If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul."

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Saturday, 23 December

Two thoughts from Publilius Syrus

"He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea."

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."

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