A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.
~ Ben Franklin
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Words not deeds →
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 →
Not mine →
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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Escape from the crush of circumstances →
Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield →
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Key to success →
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
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