Aphorisms (350)

Aphorisms 350

Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzche Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. — Michelangelo The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare… — Friedrich Nietzche Ağız felaketlerin kaynağıdır. — Japon atasözü Traveler, there is no path, the path is made by walking. — Antonio Machado Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of… — John Updike Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. — Elizabeth Alexander Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. — Michael McGriffy If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. — Claude McKay Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for… — Lemony Snicket There are no original ideas. There are only original people. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible. — Mildred D. Taylor The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in the state of boredom. — Viktor Frankl Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anaïs Nin Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde It's not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life, that counts. — J.M. Laurence If you don't know how much you need, the default easily becomes more. — Ryan Holiday The power of the Eye of the Heart, which produces insight, is vastly superior to the power of thought, which produces… — E.F. Schumacher Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature. — Martha Nussbaum When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao Tzu It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within. — Eiji Yoshikawa I love quotes… but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it's worthless. — Tony Robbins When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. — Rachel Simmons Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. — Mae West A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. — Petrarch Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. — James Dean To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior… — Masaru Emoto No matter how nice the place is where you live, you need to experience life and the world. — Terri Irwin He that would thrive must ask his wife. — English Proverb The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal. — Harsha Bhogle The things you own end up owning you. — Chuck Palahniuk The interesting jobs are the ones that you make up. — Chris Young Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love. — Thomas Lewis Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. — Parker Palmer No worthy problem is ever solved on the plane of its original conception. — Albert Einstein Intuition is seeing with the soul. — Dean Koontz Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of others, instead, seek what they sought. — Matsuo Bashō The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying. — Rohinton Mistry To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality. — John Bradshaw Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. — H. Rider Haggard Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. — Gregory Maguire Life is an action, it isn't an existence. — Anonymous Without passion you don't have energy, without energy you have nothing. — Donald Trump Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. — Douglas Preston Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. — Colette Where faith falls short, statistics help. — Werner Ehrenforth Everything that is merely probable is probably wrong. — René Descartes When the music changes, so must the dance. — African Proverb The increase in your value comes before the increase in your paycheck. — Dan Kennedy When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt it. — Henry J. Kaiser You'll have plenty of time to rest when you're dead! — Anonymous The closest thing to being magnificent is feeling and acting as if you are. — Anonymous Truth is pounding on the door. Will you insist on not opening it? — Anonymous Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. — W. H. Auden Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad… — Tony Robbins If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. — Buddha There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly. — Seneca Work is love made visible. — Kahlil Gibran Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way. — Thich Nhat Hanh Those who can't do, teach. — George Bernard Shaw Remember, politicians and diapers need to be changed frequently and for the same reason. — Robin Williams Success is never ending, failure is never final. — Robert Schuller Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. — Jawaharlal Nehru Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. — Benjamin Disraeli The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest… — Josh Waitzkin The beauty of roses lies in their transience. It is drifting away even as we inhale. We enjoy the win fully while… — Josh Waitzkin What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. — Gabriel García Márquez Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. — Marcus Valerius Martialis Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. — Rabindranath Tagore The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. — Rabindranath Tagore The biggest changes in a woman's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. — Rabindranath Tagore The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea… — Rabindranath Tagore If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. — Woody Allen Sex between two people is a beautiful thing; among five it's fantastic. — Woody Allen Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love. — Woody Allen When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. — Warren Buffett It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. — Mark Twain The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. — Stephen Hawking Wealth requires those four: access to have good things around, enough time, enough energy, and a mindset to enjoy them. — Cumhur Kılınçer Be slow to make promises and quick to keep them! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau A goal without a plan is a wish. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn… — Anonymous Suffer the pain of discipline now or suffer the pain of regret later. — Anonymous Normality is what the weak call living. I call it death. — Anonymous The body achieves what the mind believes. — Napoleon Hill Don't walk timidly. Walk with your shoulders high, your forehead facing forward. When you step on the ground, own it —… — Anonymous An opportunity can be lost in the blink of an eye but regret can last forever! — Anonymous Emotions unite people, ideas divide them. — Anonymous An idea is one that opens a path, and a path is one that leads to truth. — Anonymous Easy to make things look hard; but it's hard to make things look easy! — Anonymous Tell the truth even if you make someone cry, better than tell a lie and make them happy. — Anonymous Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes. — Maggie Kuhn All bleeding stops... eventually. — Anonymous I don't regret the things I have done in the past. I only regret the things I did not do when I had a chance. — Anonymous I am responsible for what I say, not for what you understand. — Anonymous Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. — Mick Jagger If a woman asks a question, you better tell the truth because there is a great chance that she already knows the answer. — Anonymous The way in which we handle the fear is the main difference between successful and unsuccessful people. — Anonymous We don't need to be the best. What life expects from us is to strive to be the best we can be. — Anonymous Some people are like pictures, if you scale them up too much, they will lose their quality. — Anonymous You can't handle the truth. — A Few Good Men One person's craziness is another person's reality. — Tim Burton There are no facts, only interpretations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth… — Steve Jobs Just by keeping promises to himself and others, a good samurai separates himself from the crowd. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior man exists in torture. — Benedetto Croce We can do no great things — only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. — Robert Heinlein To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich… — Stephen Covey This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and… — Kerry Gleeson We all have times when we think more effectively, and times when we should not be thinking at all. — Daniel Cohen It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. — Elbert Hubbard The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of… — Captain J.A. Hadfield No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do… — George F. Nordenholt To finish first, you must first finish. — Rick Mears The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and enjoy the dance. — Alan Watts Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action. — David Kekich I finally got it all together but I forgot where I put it. — Steven Wright Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. — Michel de Montaigne A really contented man has his yesterdays all filed away, his present in order and his tomorrow subject to instant… — James Rendel Harris There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. — John W. Raper Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done. — Julia Louis Woodruff God is in the details. — Mies van der Rohe That's when you're at your best, when you're focused and serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same… — Derek Fisher I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin. — Stephen Bayne I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's. — William Blake The ancestor of every action is a thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. — Mme. du Deffand To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. — Peter F. Drucker When you're in an earthquake on a unicycle juggling chain saws, the only way to survive is to tack down what you can… — Stephen Chakwin Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. — Henri Bergson Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. — Ambrose Bierce You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing. — David Allen Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the… — Tom Robbins Ten thousand flowers in spring. The moon in autumn. A cool breeze in summer. Snow in winter. If your mind isn't… — Wu-Men A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is… — George Bernanos I have never met a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, did not appreciate the grind — the… — Vince Lombardi We must strive to achieve that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication. — John Gardner Courage is only an accumulation of small steps. — George Conrad You are your job. — Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing. — Robert Benchley Progress means simplifying, not complicating. — Bruno Munari Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the… — Arnold Toynbee When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else — we are the busiest people in the… — Eric Hoffer It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear… — Henry Ward Beecher Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain… — Robert Service All sorts of things can be done in the long run, but you have to live through the short run to get there. — Thomas Sowell The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming… — Mark Twain Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. — Horace Mosquitoes ruin safaris. — David Allen A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. — Amy Tan Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Many a false step was made by standing still. — Fortune Cookie I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true. — Agostinho da Silva I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. — Matt Groening If small men cast large shadows somewhere, the sun is setting there! — Confucius What matters is not what is said, but what is understood from it. — Anonymous Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison Yesterday is just a memory, tomorrow we may never see. — Hemendra We do not admire what we cannot understand. — Marianne Moore There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. — Swedish Proverb A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. — Jean Genet You are what what you eat eats. — Michael Pollan Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. — Edward Abbey The world doesn't make sense until you force it to. — Frank Miller There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them! — Vicki Baum A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. — Thomas Paine One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. — Simone de Beauvoir The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again. — Manuel Puig I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. — Donna Tartt If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have… — Jim Rohn If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. — Gurbaksh Chahal All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. — Michael John Bobak I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width… — Diane Ackerman A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his friends. — Baltasar Gracián There's no inherent meaning in information — it's what we do with that information that matters. — Beau Lotto Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. — John A. Morrison Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T.S. Eliot Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. — Auguste Rodin Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. — Lao Tzu Music is the space between the notes. — Claude Debussy Learn from the mistakes of others—you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. — Martin Vanbee Wisdom is extracting facts from data, then identifying which facts matter. — Anonymous The wise see the signal in the noise. — Anonymous The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. — Richard Wright I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. — Helen Keller To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life. — Art Spiegelman A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. — Michel de Montaigne I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. — C.S. Lewis Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest. — Ralph Sockman It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. — Joseph Conrad Stories only happen to people who can tell them. — Allan Gurganus The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. — Molière A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities. — Jules Ormond It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. — Elbert Hubbard One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. — José Rizal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal Use it or lose it. — Anonymous Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson I will see it, when I believe it. — Anonymous Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending. — Chico Xavier Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them. — Giacomo Leopardi It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. — Bill Watterson Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. — Robert A. Heinlein Pleasure belongs to the donkey. — Türk Anonim Where did feelings go when they disappeared? — Evelyn Lau Love is so short, forgetting is so long. — Pablo Neruda Your limitations may not prevent you from reaching your goals, only if you know them. — Cumhur Kılınçer Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on. — Ibn-e-Safi Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage… — Ward Moore Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. — Alex Haley Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Knock, and He'll open the door. Vanish, and He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He'll raise you to the… — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two… — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in… — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi What you seek is seeking you. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi The wound is the place where the light enters you. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that… — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi While you're worrying about small things, someone your age is wishing for one more sunrise. Make your day count. — Patrick Bet-David When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? — Nicole Krauss The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. — Harry Truman Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. — Norman Cousins The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. — William James Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. — Alfred North Whitehead The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished. — Nelson DeMille Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. — Temple Grandin He or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest but rises the fastest. — Brené Brown Advise friends in secret; praise them openly. — Publilius Syrus Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. — Miguel de Cervantes The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. — Djuna Barnes The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. — Andre Dubus III Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. — Henry Louis Gates Jr. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. — Charles Darwin Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous. — Javier Marías We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories. And those that carry us forward are… — H.G. Wells Without something to believe in, life would be intolerable. — Rosamunde Pilcher There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle. And a very happy start. — Shel Silverstein I am a poet in deeds — not often in words. — Ian Fleming An adult life is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh… — Jill Ker Conway Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. — Nora Roberts Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of… — Deepak Chopra Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself. — Nawal El-Saadawi What is the ultimate quantification of success? For me, it's not how much time you spend doing what you love. It's how… — Casey Neistat Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. — Evelyn Waugh Discipline equals freedom. — Jocko Willink The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. — Lin Yutang Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman A person who knows an action is moral yet fails to act accordingly is superior to the one who acts morally without… — Farabi I would not sell even a hand's span of homeland, for this land belongs not to me but to my nation. And my nation would… — Sultan II. Abdülhamid Han The enemy's prescription for salvation is meant to kill. One form of enslavement is indebtedness. — Sultan II. Abdülhamid Han He who does not crack the walnut's shell to reach its core assumes the whole walnut is shell. — Sultan II. Abdülhamid Han He who fears defeat is always defeated. — Yıldırım Bayezid We're not very good at understanding what it is that we really want. We're extremely prone to latch onto suggestions… — Alain de Botton When I articulated that I didn't care anymore what anybody thought about what I did except me, all the weight of the… — Kevin Costner There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. — Shmuley Boteach You only need one or two great ideas a year to get rich. — Warren Buffett It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much money you make when you're right and how much money you lose when… — George Soros Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. — Carl Jung Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. — Doris Lessing There is no limit to what a man can achieve as long as he doesn't care who gets the credit. — Bob Woodruff Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. — Malcolm Muggeridge Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. — Oliver Wendell Holmes None of us are as smart as all of us. — Japanese Proverb Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. — Franklin P. Jones Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target… — Raymond Kurzweil There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. — Niels Bohr Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. — Albert Szent-Györgyi An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the… — Henry David Thoreau All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. — C. H. Oakhurst As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. — Lao Tzu Without problems there would be no reason to improve. — Benjamin C. Jones A problem is a chance for you to do your best. — Duke Ellington Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. — Thomas Disch The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein We murder to dissect.- "The Tables Turned", 1798 — William Wordsworth Don't major in minor things. — Jim Rohn The word is not the thing. — General semantics theory The menu is not the meal. — Alan Watts The map is not the territory. — Alfred Korzybski If someone points with their finger to show the moon, look at the moon, not the finger. -(Śūraṅgama Sūtra) — Buddha As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar… — Marian Anderson Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive ... and wrong. — Arthur C. Clarke And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. — Erica Jong In the long history of humankind (and animalkind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively… — Charles Darwin The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. — Winston Churchill Truth is indestructible, error passes away. — Mary Baker Eddy Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. — Robert J. Sawyer Worrying is a cheap replacement for caring. Complaining is a cheap replacement for fixing. Outrage is a cheap… — Mark Manson Responsibility is power. — Mark Manson Improving your life is a matter of experiencing desirable failures. — Mark Manson If you’re not failing, you’re not learning. If you’re not learning, you’re not growing. If you’re not growing, you’re… — Mark Manson You’ll stop worrying what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. — David Foster Wallace Your anxiety lies to you. It tells you the world is going to laugh at you when in reality no one gives a shit. — Mark Manson To prove people wrong, don’t make a counterargument; be a counterargument. — Mark Manson People will try to put the same limitations on you that they put on themselves. Don’t mistake their insecurities for… — Mark Manson What has your fear of embarrassment held you back from doing? What if you simply… well, didn’t give a fuck? — Mark Manson It’s impossible to be a life-changing presence to some without also being a complete joke to others. — Mark Manson If you cringe at your former self, that’s good—it means you’ve grown. Never stop cringing. — Mark Manson Unhappy people have a tendency to blame you for your happiness. Don’t make the mistake of apologizing for it. — Mark Manson It’s impossible to be your best self without disappointing some people some of the time. — Mark Manson In what ways have you sacrificed your self-respect in favor of validation from others? What have the results in your… — Mark Manson Validation is approval from others. Self-esteem is approval from yourself. Never sacrifice your self-esteem to gain… — Mark Manson The person you have to spend the most time listening to in your life is yourself. Try not to lose your respect. — Mark Manson There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. — Sophie Kinsella If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or… — Carlos Castaneda I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur C. Clarke Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our great business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlisle We must give a lot of thought to the future, because that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives. — John Maynard Keynes Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created. — Albert Einstein If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it. — Albert Einstein Work is the only thing that gives substance to life. — Albert Einstein It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning… — Albert Einstein If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. — Albert Einstein A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein If you want to test a man's character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. — Albert Einstein Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. — Albert Einstein If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. — Friedrich Nietzche And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzche In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be… — Friedrich Nietzche Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. — Friedrich Nietzche