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I received this Japanese clear file as a gift from a friend. The inscription is quite inspiring.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. You cannot do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its depth and width.
According to a Japanese blogger it is an amalgam of multiple quotes by Albert Einstein, Charles Baudelaire, Albert Schweitzer, Eric Hoffer, Helen Keller, and Evan Esar. I wonder now if you can easily chain any set of inspiring quotes together to make a nice piece like this …
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Japanese stationary so often contains these really profound statements. Maybe that’s the real reason why Japan is home to so many innovators?
Beautiful…
Well, let’s give it a spin. Picked sort of randomly:
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Shut up and talk.
(Bertrand Russell, Gandhi, Yogi Berra)
very inspirational, i like the amalgam idea of creating a ’super quote’
No man was ever wise by chance. So choose to become wiser, choose to love more, choose to be more. And when through this continuous striving you will be wiser, love more, be more, you will will see the truth and this truth will set you free. You will see that we become what we think about and that becoming feels just as good as being, that sometimes the journey is even better than the inn.
(Seneca, Jesus, Nightingale and Cervantes)
I am blown away by Michael and Peter’s creativity realized in what Tim has aptly coined as “the super quote.” Much more preferable than a supertanker or other superthing. Thanks for your inspiration, guys! John
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Any chance of a higher res version of the photograph?
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Interesting that my passcode happened to be “resist” … Shall I resist commenting or shall I resist accepting the phrase “You cannot do much about the length of your life, …”
Indeed we can and we are doing something very big and important about the length of our human lives — we, humanity, are actively working at regenerative existence by protecting our bodies and our minds against the ravages of disease and toward extending our limited lifespan.
As beautiful as this image is and as provoking and poetic the message; we can do a lot about the depth and width of our lives and also the length of our lives.
May 10,000 flowers bloom,
Natasha Vita-More
I have that folder, and the oddest thing about it is that the largest part that has been cropped from the picture says “Inspiration comes of working.”