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Act without expectation.
— Lao Tzu
On Discipline
Silence is a source of great strength.
— Lao Tzu
On Focus & Distraction
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them — that only creates sorrow.
— Lao Tzu
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
— Lao Tzu
On Discipline
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles…
— Lao Tzu
On Discipline
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside,…
— Carl Jung
On Purpose
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
— Carl Jung
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem im…
— Carl Jung
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
— Carl Jung
On Starting Over
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
— Carl Jung
On Focus & Distraction
What you resist, persists.
— Carl Jung
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
— Carl Jung
On Purpose
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
— Elie Wiesel
On Purpose
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead.
— Elie Wiesel
On Purpose
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
— Elie Wiesel
On Purpose
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
On Purpose
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the torme…
— Elie Wiesel
On Confidence
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
— Elie Wiesel
On Purpose
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
— Elie Wiesel
On Starting Over
The tyrant dies and his rule is over. The martyr dies and his rule begins.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Purpose
Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Focus & Distraction
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Purpose
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Once you label me you negate me.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Confidence
Don't forget to love yourself.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Confidence
An unexamined faith is not worth having.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Purpose
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who thin…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Focus & Distraction
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Focus & Distraction
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Confidence