If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
~ Lao Tzu
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Where you are heading →
The one who smiles →
Better to be the one who smiled than the one who didn’t smile back.
~ unknown
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They merely amplify →
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
~ Will Smith
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So implausible →
Not long ago, what we have today was so implausible that nobody bothered to say it would never happen.
~ Marc Andreessen
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Just three things →
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~ Lao Tzu
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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.
~ Lance Armstrong
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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
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No hope →
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Albert Einstein
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Enlightenment →
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~ Lao Tzu
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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
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