Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honour that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect
Maria Popova
Try to be surprised by something every day. Experience things for what it is, not what you think it is
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
Does thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity
Albert Einstein
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Confucius
There is only one way to avoid criticism:
Do nothing
Say nothing
and be nothing
Aristotle
Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles
Charlie chaplin
It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change
Charles Darwin
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see
Mark Twain
When dealing with people, remember that you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion
Dale Carnegie
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
Theodore Roosevelt
A ship is always safe at the shore but that is not what it is built for
ALBERT EINSTEIN
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead
GUSTEA RATAQUILLE
The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work
Tiana
There is always something more to learn. Even for a master
Kungfu panda
Create your own sunshine because you deserve it
Affirmations for anxiety
a wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows she has none
Marilyn Monroe
Robert Biswas-DienerHappiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear
Taylor Swift
Once you start making the effort to ‘wake yourself up’—that is, be more mindful in your activities—you suddenly start appreciating life a lot more
Robert Biswas-Diener
We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.” –Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
Jean Piaget
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
B.F. Skinner
Probably the biggest insight… is that happiness is not just a place, but also a process. Happiness is an ongoing process of fresh challenges, and it takes the right attitudes and activities to continue to be happy.
Ed Diener
For happy people, time is ‘filled and planned.’ For unhappy people, time is unfilled, open and uncommitted; they postpone things and are inefficient.
Michael Argyle
The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Daniel Gilbert
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness
Carl G. Jung
Be content with what you have. Rejoice in how things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu