- A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Steve Martin
- In a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The truly smart don’t care about looking smart. The truly rich don’t care about looking rich. The truly happy don’t care about looking happy. @orangebook_
- 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_
- One gains by losing and loses by gaining. Zen proverb
- Act without expectation. Lao Tzu
- The future is being made out of the present, so the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. This is logical and clear. Thich Nhat Hanh
- The fool has many thoughts, dramatize them and becomes agitated. The wise has many thoughts, ignore most of them and stay cool-headed. Maxime Lagacé
- There are two ways to be. One is at war with reality and the other is at peace. Byron Katie
- A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Presence is when you’re no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one. Eckhart Tolle
- Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness. Osho
- 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
- The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable. H.L. Mencken (Prejudices: Third Series)
- No one is born with self-confidence. No one is born with a clear mind. No one is born with courage. They are all acquired. Decades of efforts. Just keep going. @orangebook_
- The game is to be where you are. Be it honestly and as consciously as you know how. Ram Dass
- Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten? Sigmund Freud
- Remember: eventually, no one will remember you. Jack Butcher (See also: death quotes)
- When there is no desire, all things are at peace. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, Amazon book)
- I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. Socrates
- Life’s meaning is not in following someone else, it is in the unfolding of one’s own self. It is not a process of becoming like someone else, it is to be oneself. Osho
- The power of man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. Blaise Pascal
- People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne)
- “That’s funny” is a nice way of letting someone know it really wasn’t. Sammy Rhodes
- 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
- If you follow wisdom, fun follows you. If you follow fun, misery follows you. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. Mark Twain
- Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it. Ram Dass
- Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand. Seungsahn