“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
- – Isaac Newton
“I helped a man climb a mountain and found that I too had reached the top.”
“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
- – Neale Walsch
“Visit your soul; don’t visit your past.”
- – Paulo Coelho
“We all have a short period of time on this earth. We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well.”
- – Steve Jobs
“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”
- – Paulo Coelho
“When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging are a birthright, and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.”
- – Brene Brown
- – Rumi
“the duty of the writer…is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet.”
- – Solmaz Sharif
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
- – Seneca
“let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. just keep going. no feeling is final.”
- – rainer maria rilke
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– herman hesse, siddhartha
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
- – Rabindranath Tagore
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
- – Alan Watts
“There is an old two-part rule that often works wonders in business, science, and elsewhere: 1) Take a simple, basic idea and 2) take it very seriously.”
- – Charles Munger
“You become what you give your attention to.”
- – Epictetus
- – Dan Koe
- – Buddha
- – Friedrich Nietzche
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
- – Heraclitus
“I wash the dishes to wash the dishes. Present moment, beautiful moment.”
- – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Tomorrow is for the lazy mind, the sluggish mind, the mind that is not interested.”
- – J. Krishnamurti
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
- – Buddha
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
- – Montaigne
“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”
- – Alain de Botton
“Anything you do, let it come from you, then it will be new.”
- – Stephen Sondheim
“Losing is not my enemy…fear of losing is my enemy.”
- – Rafael Nadal
“To suffer before it is necessary is to suffer more than necessary.”
- – Seneca
“Students don’t need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who’s gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning.”
- – Professor Feynman
“I look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without a crack showing. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it. But all that had gone before.”
- – James Clear
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
- – Joan Didion
“I wanted to see, and so I went along to watch. I was younger than I realized and extremely American; sentimental but not stupid. I didn’t go to Afghanistan with any strong convictions; I was a reporter, and I wanted to see. Only after covering it for years did I understand that the war on terror never really existed. It was not a real thing. Not that the war on terror was flawed, not that it was cynical or self-defeating, or likely to breed more resentment and violence. But that it was hollow, it was essentially nothing but a unifying myth for a complicated scramble of mixed impulses and social theories and night terrors and cruelty and business interests, all overhung with the unassailable memory of falling skyscrapers. There were, of course, certain wars, certain campaigns, certain speeches, all netted together under a heading. But this war we all talked about wasn’t a coherent system, or a philosophy, or a strategy. Maybe it was a way for Americans to convince ourselves that we were still strong and correct. Mostly, I think, it was fear. Fear made more dangerous by gaping American estrangement from the rest of the world. Fear at a loss for an object.”
- – Megan K. Stack
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
- – Abraham Lincoln