It is like a drinking straw. The surface of a straw is two-dimensional. However, one direction is curled up into a small circle, so that from a distance the straw looks like a one-dimensional line.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. - Carl Rogers

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Don't let anyone tell you what you can't do. Follow your dreams and persist. - Barack Obama

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But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde

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Genes don't carry dreams, not hereditarily that is, determination does. ― Abhijit Naskar

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Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down. - Walter Kirn

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.- Langston Hughes

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go. ― Dr. Seuss

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