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Life is the sum of all your choices.
— Albert Camus
On Purpose
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
— Albert Camus
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebelli…
— Albert Camus
On Confidence
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
On Starting Over
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Discipline
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; th…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Starting Over
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Confidence
There are no facts, only interpretations.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Focus & Distraction
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Starting Over
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Purpose
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
— Elon Musk
On Discipline
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
— Elon Musk
On Confidence
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.
— Elon Musk
On Discipline
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
— Dr. Seuss
On Focus & Distraction
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
— Dr. Seuss
On Purpose
Today you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you.
— Dr. Seuss
On Confidence
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
— Dr. Seuss
On Focus & Distraction
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
— Chris Rock
On Money, Plainly
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
On Confidence
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
— Thomas Mann
On the Working Life
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Money, Plainly
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Focus & Distraction
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Starting Over
Anxiety is the price of the ticket to life; to live fully is to accept anxiety as a companion.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Purpose
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
— Virginia Woolf
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
— Virginia Woolf
On Confidence
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
— Sylvia Plath
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— Dylan Thomas
On Discipline
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
On Money, Plainly