Catalyst Quotes

“Are You Using All Your Strength?”

 

“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”     (Stephen Nachmanovitch)

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“A little boy was having difficulty lifting a heavy stone.  His father came along just then.  Noting the boy’s failure, he asked, ‘Are you using all your strength?’

‘Yes, I am,’ the little boy said impatiently.

‘No, you are not,’ the father answered.  ‘I am right here just waiting, and you haven’t asked me to help you.’     (Author Unknown)

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”     (Anaïs Nin)

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“If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore.”     (Shirley Mount Hufstedler)

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“Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds.  Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.”     José Ortega y Gasset)

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“The miracle is this, the more we share, the more we have.”     (Leonard Nimoy)

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