Quotes

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

Try to be surprised by something every day. Experience things for what it is, not what you think it is

Does thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

There is only one way to avoid criticism:

Do nothing

Say nothing

and be nothing

Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see

When dealing with people, remember that you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

A ship is always safe at the shore but that is not what it is built for

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

The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work

There is always something more to learn. Even for a master

Create your own sunshine because you deserve it

a wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows she has none

Robert Biswas-DienerHappiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

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

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

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.

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.

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.

For happy people, time is ‘filled and planned.’ For unhappy people, time is unfilled, open and uncommitted; they postpone things and are inefficient.

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.

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

Be content with what you have. Rejoice in how things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.