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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
— Voltaire
On Focus & Distraction
A wise man knows that the only thing he knows is that he knows nothing.
— Voltaire
On Confidence
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
— Bertrand Russell
On Confidence
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge…
— Bertrand Russell
On Purpose
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any give…
— Viktor Frankl
On Confidence
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
— Viktor Frankl
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, spe…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Focus & Distraction
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Confidence
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
— Bruce Lee
On the Working Life
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
— Bruce Lee
On Focus & Distraction
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
— William James
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
You start dying slowly if you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job.
— Martha Medeiros
On Starting Over
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
— Pablo Neruda
On the Working Life
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
— David Viscott
On the Working Life
Don't ask me, my love, for that love we shared before.
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
On Starting Over
Speak — for your lips are free. Speak — your tongue is still your own.
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
On Confidence
He alone is real and worthy of trust who knows how to keep his word.
— Muhammad Iqbal
On Discipline
A nation cannot be reformed by punishments and prisons. The remedy is education and the awakening of the spirit.
— Muhammad Iqbal
On the Working Life
Lift yourself so high that even God before issuing every decree of fate must ask you what your wish is.
— Muhammad Iqbal
On Confidence
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
— Rabindranath Tagore
On Confidence
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
On Discipline
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
— Rabindranath Tagore
On Confidence
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
— Rabindranath Tagore
On Focus & Distraction
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
— Rabindranath Tagore
On Discipline
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
— Andy Warhol
On Starting Over
I would have liked to have known my mother better.
— Andy Warhol
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
When you stop having dreams and ideals, you might as well stop altogether.
— Marian Anderson
On Purpose
I think you can have it all. You just can't have it all at the same time.
— Betty Friedan
On the Working Life
We are not the sum of our possessions.
— George H. W. Bush
On Money, Plainly
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
— Neil Kinnock
On Purpose