Springtime in Chania

After spending an amazing time with friends in the beautiful city of Chania, in Crete, I find it difficult for days now to return to reality and start studying again.

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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments 

simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Edward de Bono 

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True wisdom comes to each of us 

when we realize how little we understand 

about life, ourselves, & the world around us.

Socrates

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The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' 

is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
 

Wayne Dyer

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 The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, 

the more you become a lover of what is.
 

Baruch Spinoza

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Whatever difficulty you face, 

there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. 

Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. 

It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. 

We listen to awaken our heart. 

We do this to stay vital and alive.
 

Mark Nepo

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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. 

It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. 

He accepts his boredom, when it comes, 

not merely philosophically, 

but almost with pleasure.
 

Aldous Huxley

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If you want things to be different, 

perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
 

Norman Vincent Peale

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Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh

New equipment

For the upcoming trip to Iceland I needed a pair of hiking boots (since we will be hiking on rough terrain) so I was searching into various options and in the end got a pair in Slovakia!

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The friend is the man who knows all about you, 

and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

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 Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. 

Not simply be what is generally called a "success."
 

Eleanor Roosevelt

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 Not everything that is faced can be changed. 

But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
 

 James Baldwin

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, 

not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
 

Baruch Spinoza

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 We have to understand that the world 

can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. 

The hand is more important than the eye. 

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
 

Jacob Bronowski

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. 

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections 

but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. 

Patience alone will not build the temple. 

Passion alone will destroy its walls.
 

Maya Angelou

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

Rachel Carson

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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
 

Barack Obama