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
Media, advertising, and social media constantly bombard us with images of "perfection," creating unrealistic standards.
Walt Disney
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nelson Mandela
The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters a phase of decay
Mastery- Robbert Greene
In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.
Make your return to the path a resolution you set for yourself, and then tell others about it. It becomes a matter of shame and embarrassment to deviate from this path.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
"You're a flower. There's people that are allergic to flowers but that doesn't stop flowers from blooming. Theres people who aren't gonna like you and that's okay. Share your pollen with the world and you'll attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Stop worrying about ol' sneezy mcgee. Bloom."
The very power of the word [“witch”] lies in its imprecision. It is not merely a word but an archetype, a cluster of powerful images.”
You must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be: and all you should strive to do is to make use of this character in such a way as its kind of nature permits, rather than to hope for any alteration in it, or to condemn it offhand for what it is. This is the true sense of the maxim—Live and let live.... To become indignant at [people’s] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
displayed a fluid, sensitive way of thinking that developed along with their expanding social intelligence.
We must, however, acknowledge...that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
CHARLES DARWIN