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“She believed she had uncovered a key truth about focus: To pay attention in normal ways, you need to feel safe.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

“From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme

“Don't throw good time after bad work.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.”
― James Hollis, What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”
― Emmet Fox

“If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount

“It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.”
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

“He clearly indicates throughout his teaching that the time has come when man must make each and every day a spiritual Sabbath by knowing and doing all things in a spiritual light.”
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life - A Practical Approach to Jesus's Teachings, Personal Transformation, and the Power of Positive Thinking in the Sermon on the Mount