Quotes 10
When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it.
- Unknown
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
- Theodor Reik
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
- Dalai Lama
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
- Albert Bandura
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
- Joyce Brothers
A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.
- Eric Berne
Nothing beautiful without struggle.
-
Plato, The Republic
original: “χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά” (Xalepa ta kala)
You ought first to learn the art of this-worldly consolation - you should learn to laugh, my young friends, if you are determined to remain pessimists; perhaps as laughers you will consign all metaphysical consolations to the devil - and metaphysics in front of all the rest!
- Nietzsche, “Attempt at Self-Criticism,” from The Birth of Tragedy
Struggle creates greatness.
- Expherience
People who are easily distracted tend to be more creative because their mind are constantly wandering.
Stop thinking that you have been wronged, and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via wordsnquotes)
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
-
Timothy Leary
If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.
- Sherman Alexie
When people say, ‘I’m the kind of person who,’ my heart always sinks.
These are formulas, we’ve all got about ten formulas about who we are, what we like, the kind of people we like, all that stuff. The disparity between these phrases and how one experiences oneself minute by minute is ludicrous.
It’s like the caption under a painting. You think, Well, yeah, I can see it’s called that. But you need to look at the picture.
- Adam Phillips, interviewed by Paul Holdengräber, featured in the Paris Review
You can’t calm the storm…so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.
- Timber Hawkeye
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.
- Michel De Montaigne
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
- Pedro Arrupe
- Unknown
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
- Theodor Reik
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
- Dalai Lama
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
- Albert Bandura
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
- Joyce Brothers
A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.
- Eric Berne
Nothing beautiful without struggle.
-
Plato, The Republic
original: “χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά” (Xalepa ta kala)
You ought first to learn the art of this-worldly consolation - you should learn to laugh, my young friends, if you are determined to remain pessimists; perhaps as laughers you will consign all metaphysical consolations to the devil - and metaphysics in front of all the rest!
- Nietzsche, “Attempt at Self-Criticism,” from The Birth of Tragedy
Struggle creates greatness.
- Expherience
People who are easily distracted tend to be more creative because their mind are constantly wandering.
Stop thinking that you have been wronged, and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via wordsnquotes)
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
-
Timothy Leary
If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.
- Sherman Alexie
When people say, ‘I’m the kind of person who,’ my heart always sinks.
These are formulas, we’ve all got about ten formulas about who we are, what we like, the kind of people we like, all that stuff. The disparity between these phrases and how one experiences oneself minute by minute is ludicrous.
It’s like the caption under a painting. You think, Well, yeah, I can see it’s called that. But you need to look at the picture.
- Adam Phillips, interviewed by Paul Holdengräber, featured in the Paris Review
You can’t calm the storm…so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.
- Timber Hawkeye
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.
- Michel De Montaigne
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
- Pedro Arrupe