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Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they becom…
— Lao Tzu
On Discipline
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
— Lao Tzu
On Discipline
The soul has no secret that the behaviour does not reveal.
— Lao Tzu
On Purpose
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
— Voltaire
On Confidence
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of tru…
— Voltaire
On Purpose
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
— Voltaire
On Purpose
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
— Voltaire
On Confidence
Common sense is not so common.
— Voltaire
On Focus & Distraction
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
— Voltaire
On Focus & Distraction
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
— Voltaire
On Purpose
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
— Voltaire
On Focus & Distraction
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
— Voltaire
On Focus & Distraction
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
— Voltaire
On Focus & Distraction
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most impo…
— Albert Einstein
On the Working Life
Paths are made by walking.
— Franz Kafka
On Starting Over
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.
— Franz Kafka
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The meaning of life is that it stops.
— Franz Kafka
On Purpose
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
— Franz Kafka
On Confidence
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
— Franz Kafka
On Purpose
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
— Franz Kafka
On Discipline
In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.
— Franz Kafka
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
— Franz Kafka
On Focus & Distraction
Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and…
— Franz Kafka
On Starting Over
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
— Albert Camus
On Purpose
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
— Albert Camus
On Starting Over
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
On Discipline
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
— Albert Camus
On Purpose
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
— Albert Camus
On Discipline
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
— Albert Camus
On Focus & Distraction
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
— Albert Camus
On Purpose