Quotes

"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there." Rumi
"We all have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." Confucius
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so." Mark Twain
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself." Epictetus
"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within." Maya Angelou
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." William Shakespeare
"I think I know how many times one has to start again, and how often one feels that one cannot start again. And yet, on pain of death, one can never remain where one is. The light. The light. One will perish without the light." James Baldwin
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." John Muir
"You are remembered for the rules you break." Douglas MacArthur
"Don't tell them how to do it tell them what to do and let them surprise you with the results." George S. Patton
"Don’t be a know-it-all; be a learn-it-all." Satya Nadella
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." Nelson Mandela
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." Steve Jobs
"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve encountered to make the big choices in life." Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." Steve Jobs
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." Steve Jobs
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." Jim Rohn
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde
"Show up on time, know the text, and have a head full of ideas." Tom Hanks
"Perseverance and Spirit have done Wonders in all ages." George Washington
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water." John Keats
"We all must wear out or rust out, my choice is to wear out." Theodore Roosevelt
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." Epictetus
"The best revenge is not to be like that." Marcus Aurelius
"There is good in everything, if only we look for it." Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." Marcus Aurelius
"Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth." Epicurus
"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are." Jose Ortega y Gasset
"You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out." Warren Buffett
"Time and patience are the strongest warriors." Leo Tolstoy
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may." Buddha
"He who is everywhere is no where." Seneca
"As the Island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance—the boundary between the known and unknown. Learning more about the world doesn’t lead to a point closer to a final destination—whose existence is nothing but a hopeful assumption anyways—but to more questions and mysteries. The more we know, the more exposed we are to our ignorance, and the more we know to ask." Marcelo Gleiser
"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble." John Madden
"There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just be. Just being in the moment in this place is the deepest practice of meditation. Most people cannot believe that just walking as if you have nowhere to go is enough." Thich Nhat Hanh
"People talk about entering nirvana, but we are already there. Aimlessness and nirvana are one." Thich Nhat Hanh
"Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." James 4:13-16
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both." Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.
Morality: You are not alone in the world and other people matter as much as you do.
“I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” President Eisenhower
“The world is not driven by greed. It’s driven by envy,” Charlie Munger
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass … it’s about learning how to dance in the rain." Blake Turk
"The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live." Seneca quoting Epicurus
"The sea is as near as we come to another world." Anne Stevensor
"Leadership is humility and generosity squared.” Ken Burns at Brandeis University Commencement Address
“There’s only us. There is no them. Whenever someone suggests to you, whomever it may be in your life, that there is a them, run away.” He added, “Othering is the simplistic binary way to make and identify enemies, but it is also the surest way to your own self-imprisonment.” His plea to oppose repression everywhere earned sustained applause.
“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.” Vince Lombardi
“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” Jacques Cousteau
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Frank Herbert, Dune
“Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it.” Kermit in “The Muppet Christmas Carol"
“To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” E.M. Forster
“The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love’s service only the wounded soldiers can serve.” Thornton Wilder
“We do not exist just to consume, and we don’t want the end state of humanity to be the Villages in Florida.” New Yorker
"If you want new ideas, read old books." Shane Parrish
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. Stephen Hawking
Thousands of people don’t like what I do. Fortunately, millions do. James Patterson
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. André Gid
Scarcity is the one thing you can never have enough of. Marc Randolph
The most selfish act of all is kindness, because it's payback is so much greater than the investment. Tom Peters
The illiterate of the 21st century will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler
Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once… and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you. Susan Sontag
There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. Octavia Butler
"An undemanding reader asks no questions and gets no answers."