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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Confidence
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
— Rumi
On Starting Over
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
— Rumi
On Purpose
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you…
— Marcus Aurelius
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Starting Over
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
On Confidence
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
— Viktor Frankl
On Purpose
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
On Starting Over
Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over th…
— Brené Brown
On Confidence
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
On Discipline
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
— Seneca
On Focus & Distraction
No man is free who is not master of himself.
— Epictetus
On Discipline
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
— James Clear
On Discipline
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means…
— Steve Jobs
On Focus & Distraction
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
— Seneca
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
— Seneca
On the Working Life
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies…
— Viktor Frankl
On Anxiety & Quiet Days