Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
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Love →
Seeds →
Unexpected →
I’m telling you, the best thing to do is give people questions they’re not expecting.
~ Mike Birbiglia
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Options →
In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery.
~ Naval Ravikant
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Talent and courage →
A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.
~ Sydney Smith
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Greatness →
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: That one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity… but to love it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Heart work →
So much of the job is more emotion and ‘heart work’ than it is ‘head work.’ The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it’s not the head, and it’s not an intellectual activity.
~ Rick Rubin
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Mediocrity →
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You’ll avoid the tough decisions, and you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted.
~ Colin Powell
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Reason →
You can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into.
~ Tim Ferriss
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Impossible, or possible? →
When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how to get around whoever it is that’s just told you that you can’t do something? So, how am I going to get past this bouncer who told me that I can’t come into this night club? How am I going to start a business when my credit is terrible and I have no experience?
~ Eric Weinstein
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