Quotes

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows. so does the shore of our ignorance. ~ John Archibald Wheeler

Any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people’s experience. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

“You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.” ~ David Foster Wallace

Your brain’s greatest skill is its ability to think about the minds of others in order to understand them better. ~ Nicholas Epley

People who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou

Sometimes its not the what you learn from the journey, its the epiphany of learning how much was out there you didn't know.

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” ~ Lao Tzu

"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

“You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” ~ John Wooden

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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” ~ Lao Tzu

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Self-awareness is like an onion, there are always more deeper layers to peel back, and the further you get the more likely you are to spontaneously start crying.

If you want to live happy, live hidden.

One of the gifts of maturity is to realize that happiness is bigger, broader and more enduring than pleasure, and that fulfillment is more meaningful and rewarding than fun and that sometimes, the pursuit of pleasure and fun obstruct the achievement of happiness and fulfillment. ~ Michael Josephson

Choose someone whose way of life as well as words, and whose very face as mirroring the character that lies behind it, have won your approval. Be always pointing him out to yourself either as your guardian or as your model. There is a need, in my view, for someone as a standard against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler to do it against you won’t make crooked straight. ~ Seneca

"The easiest way to fail, is to try pleasing everyone."

“The true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another” ~ Marcel Proust

“Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn

When we are born, we are crying while the world rejoices. We should live our lives in such a way that when we die, the world cries while we are rejoicing.

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"The learning of life is about what to avoid." ~ Nassem Nicholas Taleb

Mentoring is your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. And it should never end. It is why you get up every day. To teach and be taught. ~ John Wooden

Stop Lying - Every time you tell someone a lie, you are telling yourself that they are more important than you. You are telling them that who you are isn't enough for them.

We are defined by what we choose to reject. And if we reject nothing (perhaps in fear of being rejected by something ourselves), we essentially have no identity at all.

"If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. you want to go forward. You want to see more, do more."

“The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ~ John Wooden

the great failing is “to see yourself as more than you are and to value yourself at less than your true worth.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change the definition of success. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” ~ John Wooden

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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. ~ Marcus Aurelius

don’t be special; don’t be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator. ~ Mark Manson

"no one truly successful will criticize you." ~ Marcus Aurelius

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” ~ William James

“People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.” ~ Owen D. Young

“Sympathy the human species universally craves. The child eagerly displays his injury; or even inflicts a cut or bruise in order to reap abundant sympathy.” ~ Dr. Arthur I. Gates

‘No man is free who is not a master of himself’. ~ Epictetus

Pain is often the precursor to personal growth. Don’t dread it. Instead, embrace it.

‘Happiness comes through good judgement, good judgement comes through experience, and experience comes through bad judgement.’

The only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience. Listen to your conscience. Let it guide you. It knows what is right. It will tell you that your calling in life is ultimately selfless service to others in some form or another.

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