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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
— Thomas Edison
On Confidence
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuit…
— Douglas Adams
On the Working Life
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
— Douglas Adams
On the Working Life
Whom the gods love die young.
— Menander
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
— Plutarch
On the Working Life
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
— Seneca
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
— Seneca
On Discipline
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
— Seneca
On Confidence
A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becomes fruitful.
— Marcus Aurelius
On the Working Life
Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill…
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
— Mitch Albom
On Starting Over
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations…
— Henry David Thoreau
On Confidence
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
— Margaret Fuller
On Focus & Distraction
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
— Benjamin Franklin
On the Working Life
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
— Gerry Spence
On Focus & Distraction
We're all just walking each other home.
— Ram Dass
On the Working Life
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.
— Ram Dass
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
— Hermann Hesse
On Starting Over
Faith is the small candle that lights the dark room.
— Hermann Hesse
On Confidence
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred.
— Nelson Mandela
On Purpose
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it…
— John Wayne
On Starting Over
I want to be in the small boat of my own intentions, going to the small island of myself.
— Mary Oliver
On Focus & Distraction
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
— Mary Oliver
On Focus & Distraction
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowin…
— Mary Oliver
On Starting Over
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise.
— Walt Whitman
On Confidence
Resist much, obey little.
— Walt Whitman
On Confidence
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
— Walt Whitman
On Purpose