“So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.”
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“We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.”
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“Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.”
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“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
2000s, A Conversation with Alan Kay, 2004–05
Context: Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.