- Food fasting fixes the body. Thought fasting fixes the mind. Judgment fasting fixes relationships. Have the courage to get less: you will get more. @orangebook_
- Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. Albert Einstein
- What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. Jorge Luis Borges
- Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in. Shannon L. Alder
- There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. Thich Nhat Hanh
- If only humanity made its loving as frequent and as detailed as its complaining. Philip Arnold
- You’re never too important to be nice to people. Jon Batiste
- Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Steve Martin
- Most people feel that they become more and more authentic over the course of their lives. I think that the older we get, the less we give a damn who we’re “supposed” to be. Susan Cain
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. Mark Twain
- If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Buddhist proverb
- Our practice is to cultivate good seeds in the soil of our mind, knowing that they will mature and bloom in their own time. Thich Nhat Hanh
- When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is ignorance. Zhuangzi
- We are prisoners of the present, in perpetual transition from an inaccessible past to an unknowable future. Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. Swami Vivekananda
- The really important thing is not to reject anything. Susan Sontag
- Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal
- Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the liar with truth. The Dhammapada
- Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Blaise Pascal
- The present moment. It’s where high performance is expressed and wisdom is revealed. Michael Gervais
- Remember: eventually, no one will remember you. Jack Butcher (See also: death quotes)
- “Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.” ― Germany Kent
- Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way. Dogen
- When there is no desire, all things are at peace. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, Amazon book)
- “That’s funny” is a nice way of letting someone know it really wasn’t. Sammy Rhodes
- If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear – emanate love. Ram Dass
- To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. Doug Larson
- Modern medicine is more about money than about health. Modern education is more about credentials than about learning. Modern traveling is more about social signaling than about discovery. @orangebook_