Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

The roller coaster →

Published Sep 16, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 16  ·  

Life is not ever going to be content. Life is never going to be normal. For the rest of your life you’re on a journey that has ups and downs and ups and downs, it is a roller coaster that never ends. Until one day you close your eyes and you’re off the roller coaster. And I think for me, I just want to be on as many different journey’s as possible, so at least if I’m on a roller coaster, there’s a new zigzag and a turn that I didn’t know about before.

~ Scooter Braun

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Men who are mortal →

Published Sep 15, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 15  ·  

But what if my friends there should die? What else could that signify except that men who are mortal have died? Do you at once wish to live to be old, and yet not to see the death of any one you love? Do you not know that, in a long course of time, many and various events must necessarily happen? That a fever must get the better of one person, a highwayman of another, a tyrant of a third?

~ Epictetus

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The modern struggle →

Published Sep 14, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 14  ·  

The modern struggle — Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games and addictive drugs.

~ Naval Ravikant

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Look back →

Published Sep 13, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 13  ·  ,

One never notices what has been done; One can only see what remains to be done.

~ Marie Curie

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The security of your condition →

Published Sep 13, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 13  ·  ,

Somebody has arrived from Rome. “I only hope there is no bad news.” Why, what harm can happen to you when you are not there? — Somebody has arrived from Greece. “I only hope there is no bad news.” Why, at this rate, every place can be the cause of misfortune to you. Is it not enough for you to be unfortunate where you are, but must you be unhappy on the other side of the sea also, and by letter? Such is the security of your condition!

~ Epictetus

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One great city →

Published Sep 12, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 12  ·  ,

…the world is one great city, and the substance out of which it is formed is single, and there must necessarily be a cycle of change, in which one thing gives way to another, and some things are destroyed and others come into being, and some things remain where they were and others are moved.

~ Epictetus

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Crows versus flatterers →

Published Sep 11, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 11  ·  

[Concerning our dealings with other people,] it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

~ Antisthenes

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The school is a surgery →

Published Sep 10, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 10  ·  ,

The school of a philosopher is a surgery. You should not depart from it in pleasure, but in pain, for you are not healthy when you come in, but one of you has a dislocated shoulder, another an abscess, another a fistula, another a headache. And am I to come up with pretty thoughts and reflections, so that each of you will go away praising me, but with the same dislocated shoulder, the same aching head, the same fistula, and the same abscess that you brought in?

~ Epictetus

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Then act accordingly →

Published Sep 9, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 9  ·  ,

First tell yourself what sort of man you want to be; then act accordingly in all you do. For in almost everything else we see this to be the practice. Athletes first determine what kind of athlete they want to be, and then act accordingly. … You will find the same in the arts. If you are a carpenter, you will have these procedures, if a blacksmith, those. For, if we do not refer each of our actions to some standard, we shall be acting at random; if to an improper standard, we shall fail utterly.

~ Epictetus

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Meditation →

Published Sep 9, 2021  ·  All posts on Sep 9  ·  ,

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.

~ Naval Ravikant

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