Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
~ Lao Tzu
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Things worth the writing →
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
~ Ben Franklin
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If you must →
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away
~ Will Smith
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Words not deeds →
A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
~ Ben Franklin
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Someone else holding the remote →
Living life without a plan is like watching televisions with someone else holding the remote control.
~ Peter Turla
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Live immediately →
Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: It snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately.
~ Seneca
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Don’t over-fill; Don’t over-sharpen →
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
~ Lao Tzu
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Not mine →
Not my circus.
~ Polish proverb
Not my monkeys.
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Fear is not real →
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.
~ Will Smith
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If today were the last day →
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” and whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
~ Steve Jobs
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