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Actual birth name: Pourya Oveisi. Started calling myself Paul around the age of 8. Feel free to use Pourya if you can pronounce it.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them. --Benjamin Jouett
Only the shallow know themselves. --Oscar Wilde
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. --Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. --Sylvia Boorstein
Do not speak- unless it improves on silence. --Buddhist saying
Why is everyone still sitting here? -- Alec Oveisi, very loudly at the end of a film.Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. --Sutta Nipata
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. --Christopher Reeve
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." --Paul Graham
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. --Agnes Repplier
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