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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
— Winston Churchill
On Focus & Distraction
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
— Henry David Thoreau
On Focus & Distraction
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
— Socrates
On Focus & Distraction
He who has a clear enough why can endure almost any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Focus & Distraction
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
— Buddha
On Focus & Distraction
Wherever you are, be there totally.
— Eckhart Tolle
On Focus & Distraction
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are e…
— Epictetus
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
— Wayne Dyer
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
— Søren Kierkegaard
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
— Pema Chödrön
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
— Leo Buscaglia
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a l…
— Winston Churchill
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
— Buddha
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
— Seneca
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
— Seneca
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
— Seneca
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
— Epictetus
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is no anxiety in the world which does not come from a lack of proportion.
— Epictetus
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
On Money, Plainly
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Money, Plainly
The four most dangerous words in investing are: this time it's different.
— John Templeton
On Money, Plainly
Know what you own, and know why you own it.
— Peter Lynch
On Money, Plainly
In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.
— Robert Arnott
On Money, Plainly
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.
— Benjamin Graham
On Money, Plainly
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sur…
— George Lorimer
On Money, Plainly
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
— Norman Vincent Peale
On Money, Plainly
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order.
— T.T. Munger
On Money, Plainly