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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
— Eckhart Tolle
On the Working Life
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Discipline
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Confidence
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into f…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Discipline
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Starting Over
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder.
— William Joseph Slim
On Confidence
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
— George Bernard Shaw
On Focus & Distraction
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
— George Bernard Shaw
On Confidence
A man is rich in proportion to what he can do without.
— George Bernard Shaw
On Money, Plainly
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the p…
— T. S. Eliot
On Starting Over
We had the experience but missed the meaning.
— T. S. Eliot
On Focus & Distraction
I have spread my dreams under your feet.
— W. B. Yeats
On the Working Life
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
— W. B. Yeats
On the Working Life
The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
— Chinua Achebe
On Starting Over
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving.
— Chinua Achebe
On the Working Life
Things have to fall apart in order to come together.
— Chinua Achebe
On Starting Over
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and cour…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
On Confidence
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The only journey is the one within.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
On Purpose
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
On Purpose
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
— Hermann Hesse
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Time is not a measure of length but of depth.
— Hermann Hesse
On Focus & Distraction
A man who is afraid will do anything.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the Working Life
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov
On the Working Life
I write for the same reason I breathe — because if I didn't, I would die.
— Isaac Asimov
On the Working Life
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
— Gabriel García Márquez
On Starting Over
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
— Gabriel García Márquez
On Confidence
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
— Gabriel García Márquez
On Starting Over
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
— Jorge Luis Borges
On Focus & Distraction