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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that. Benedict Cumberbatch

From <https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/benedict-cumberbatch-quotes>

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen. Benedict Cumberbatch

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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. Benedict Cumberbatch

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language learning has to come from outside in. You don’t have the language in you and it comes, overwhelmingly, from input.

The major part of language learning takes place when we are ingesting, taking the language in, because we don’t have the language in ourselves.

-Steve Kaufmann

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“人总归都有一死，不如不断尝试，万一失败了，也不过是浪费了一点时间和金钱而已。即使一直在重复失败也会有成长。”

——若宫正子

From <http://www.sohu.com/a/234906068_463994>

没有太晚的年纪，只有太懒的你。

只要勇于尝试、勤于学习，在人生的每个阶段，你都可以开拓出属于自己的跑道。

From <https://www.zhihu.com/question/28140549>

网上有人给过这样一个回答：27岁必须要结婚，那60岁是不是就立刻要去死？

话很辛辣, 但听起来很爽。

人这一生，行色匆匆。

日子如白驹过隙，好像昨天还是总角小儿，今天就成了垂暮老者。

我们在对年龄的恐慌里，着急完成人生的每个人物，就像是过了这个村儿，就没这个店了一样。

但人生不是流水线，没必要每个人都一模一样。

人生更像每个人的秘密花园，只要自己精心打理，播下的种子总会发芽，绽放出专属于你的绚烂和多姿。

所以，别焦虑，也别放弃，任何年龄，你都可以躁起来，活出自己的精彩！

--作者：沐丁西（周冲工作室撰稿者）

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Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

– Kevin Smith

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“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

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"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it." – Debbi Fields

From <https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelmontanez/2019/08/19/21-motivational-quotes-for-your-job-search-or-career-change/#3c34fedf2630>

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."—Ralph Waldo Emerson

From <https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelmontanez/2019/08/19/21-motivational-quotes-for-your-job-search-or-career-change/#3c34fedf2630>

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Laing

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

R. D. Laing

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

R. D. Laing

If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.

R. D. Laing

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.

R. D. Laing

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

R. D. Laing

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

R. D. Laing

 

What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

R. D. Laing

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

R. D. Laing

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

R. D. Laing

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

R. D. Laing

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

R. D. Laing

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

R. D. Laing

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

R. D. Laing

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

R. D. Laing

A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.

R. D. Laing

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

R. D. Laing

Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

R. D. Laing

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

R. D. Laing

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

R. D. Laing

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

R. D. Laing

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

R. D. Laing

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

R. D. Laing

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

R. D. Laing

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

R. D. Laing

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

R. D. Laing

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

R. D. Laing

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How you make your money is more important than how much you make. --Gary Vaynerchuk

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Quitting does shows lack of character, but only when you quit on something you believe in, not when you quit on something that kills you and that you don’t even care about. Then it’s called self-preservation!

From <https://stretchandbloom.com/shouldnt-quit-your-job-to-live-dreams/>

If you’ve reached burnout, save yourself now.  I don’t regret my decision to leave without a detailed plan in place.  My only true regret is going through so many years of suffering in the wrong job for me.

From <https://believeandcreate.com/get-up-the-nerve-to-quit-a-job-thats-sucking-the-life-from-you/>

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something--Steve Jobs

From <https://believeandcreate.com/get-up-the-nerve-to-quit-a-job-thats-sucking-the-life-from-you/>

But never stop believing in yourself. The world is full of naysayers, all of them eager to shout you down at the slightest indication you might transcend mediocrity, but the greatest sin you can commit is to yourself become one of them. Our job isn’t to join that group, but to silence it, to accomplish things so great and unimaginable that its members are too awed to speak. --

Jon Morrow

From <https://problogger.com/how-to-quit-your-job-move-to-paradise-and-get-paid-to-change-the-world/>

No one knows it all, to be honest with you. But, with tenacity, you will figure it out eventually.