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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
– Mark Epstein

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  1. To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all. – Mark Epstein
  2. If you don’t waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein) – Dan Harris
  3. Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met. – Mark Epstein
  4. Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one’s frame of reference so that all things become enlightening. – Mark Epstein
  5. The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception. – Ashim Shanker
  6. Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you. – Billy Graham
  7. Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it obscures the sight of potential. – Johnathan Jena
  8. Hate obscures all distinctions. – CS Lewis
  9. If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels…. – Josh Stern
  10. For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. – Diane Arbus
  11. A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture. – Anonymous
  12. A picture is just a picture, but add music and there’s emotion. There’s a story. – LH Cosway
  13. The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same. – Adhish Mazumder
  14. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture. – Richelle E Goodrich
  15. Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do. – Ziad K Abdelnour
  16. Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture – Jeanette Winterson
  17. I take a picture, but it’s not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It’s about the memories and meanings it holds. – Kayla Davis
  18. One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words – William Saroyan
  19. A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture. – Chloe Thurlow
  20. You must be present in the present to make it a present. – RVM
  21. You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM – RVM
  22. Our lives are a picture of what we ought to do, what we need to do, what we are planning to do and what we want to do. – Sunday Adelaja
  23. You ought to have a vivid picture of what you want. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  24. To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we’ve used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown. – Jane Avrich
  25. There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder. – Thomas Burnett Swann
  26. Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  27. You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity. – Ernest Hemingway
  28. Christmas ought to be brought up to date,- Maria said. -œIt ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. – John Masefield
  29. I want my lobster in bite-sized pieces! How dare you make me chew more than thrice? – Adam Jay Epstein
  30. The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired. – Joseph Epstein
  31. There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now. – Greg M Epstein
  32. The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. – Richard A Epstein
  33. The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets. – Richard A Epstein
  34. That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services. – Richard A Epstein
  35. [Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them. – Joseph Epstein
  36. The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn’t have to know. – Joseph Epstein
  37. For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration. – Joseph Epstein
  38. I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn’t present the picture they would like. – George MacDonald Fraser
  39. Make your mark now.Make your mark today.Make your mark forever. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark. – Vironika Tugaleva

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