- Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. 14th Dalai Lama
- The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone. Bhagavad Gita (See also: focus quotes)
- When failure is expensive, plan carefully. When failure is cheap, act quickly. James Clear
- “Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life’s seasons.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- Chasing happiness chases it away. Maxime Lagacé
- We don’t get wise by staying in a room with all the doors and windows closed. Pema Chödrön
- “For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.” ― Anne Holm
- It’s smart to emulate what works. It’s smarter to find out what works for you. Maxime Lagacé
- Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap. Albert Einstein
- “Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot…Where’s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here’s the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it’s the good kind.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
- In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all but very interesting. John Cage
- Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. Yoda
- Modern society is defined by an excess of opportunity. We have more information, more products, and more options than ever before. As a result, curating, filtering, and refining are more important skills than ever before. Those who edit best will find the signal in the noise. James Clear
- The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. Blaise Pascal
- The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false. Charlie Munger
- “Bitterness leads to misery.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- You don’t become completely free just by avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
- “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- Whenever you feel rooted and established in place, that is when you should be truly afraid. Robert Greene
- “The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
- “Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- If you feel uncomfortable around people smarter than you, you’re status-seeking. If you feel lucky, you’re wealth-seeking. Johnny Uzan
- Either you create your circumstances or they will be created for you. The wise man creates, the fool ponders. Carlos Del Valle
- If you understand things, if you see things properly, you will naturally, slowly develop peace from mind. Naval Ravikant
- An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant, the opposite. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes, Amazon book)
- One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. Simone de Beauvoir
- It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. Lin Yutang
- “Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- I do not belong to the category of the learned. My whole life has been based on a fundamental truth which can only be called unlearning. Osho