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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
— James Clear
On Discipline
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
— Rumi
On Purpose
No man is free who is not master of himself.
— Epictetus
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
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, t…
— Marcus Aurelius
On the Working Life
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
— Maya Angelou
On Starting Over
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
On Focus & Distraction
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
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
— Seneca
On the Working Life
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
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
— Seneca
On Anxiety & Quiet Days