I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~ Lao Tzu
Category Archives: Quotes
Pain is temporary
Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. However, if you quit that pain will last forever.
Skill is developed
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
~ Will Smith
No hope
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Albert Einstein
Enlightenment
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~ Lao Tzu
Begin the morning
Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. … I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, II.1
No plan B
There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
~ Will Smith
Those who show up
Decisions are made by those who show up.
~ Jennifer Pahlka
Mastery
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao Tzu
The life in your years
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.