Quotes

Arrive at the conviction →

Published October 28, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 28  ·  

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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How you made them feel →

Published October 22, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 22  ·  

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

~ Maya Angelou

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Sixty seconds of happiness →

Published October 16, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 16  ·  

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A dozing ox →

Published October 10, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 10  ·  

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

~ Lao Tzu

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The keys to life →

Published October 4, 2017  ·  All posts on Oct 4  ·  ,

The keys to life are running and reading. When you’re running, there’s a little person that talks to you and says, “Oh I’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. I’m so hurt. There’s no way I can possibly continue.” You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you’re running, you will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have–with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book.

~ Will Smith

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The energy of her citizens →

Published September 28, 2017  ·  All posts on Sep 28  ·  

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

~ Dwight Eisenhower

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Mastery →

Published September 22, 2017  ·  All posts on Sep 22  ·  

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Only virtuous people →

Published September 16, 2017  ·  All posts on Sep 16  ·  

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

~ Ben Franklin

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One heel nailed in →

Published September 10, 2017  ·  All posts on Sep 10  ·  

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 →

Published September 4, 2017  ·  All posts on Sep 4  ·  

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 →

Published August 29, 2017  ·  All posts on Aug 29  ·  

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 →

Published August 23, 2017  ·  All posts on Aug 23  ·  

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 →

Published August 17, 2017  ·  All posts on Aug 17  ·  

Living life without a plan is like watching televisions with someone else holding the remote control.

~ Peter Turla

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Live immediately →

Published August 11, 2017  ·  All posts on Aug 11  ·  ,

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 →

Published August 5, 2017  ·  All posts on Aug 5  ·  

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 →

Published July 30, 2017  ·  All posts on Jul 30  ·  ,

Not my circus.
Not my monkeys.

~ Polish proverb

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Fear is not real →

Published July 24, 2017  ·  All posts on Jul 24  ·  

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 →

Published July 18, 2017  ·  All posts on Jul 18  ·  

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 →

Published July 12, 2017  ·  All posts on Jul 12  ·  

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 →

Published July 6, 2017  ·  All posts on Jul 6  ·  , ,

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
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.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

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