Quote by Hugh Mackay
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equa

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. – Hugh Mackay

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A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? – Hugh Mackay

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Easter
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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. – Hugh Mackay

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dating
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Im in total sympathy with Dick Smiths sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. – Hugh Mackay

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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. – Emma Goldman

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. – Bono

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. – Tony Robbins

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Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea – the profound solitude – that does it for me. – Billy Campbell

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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