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“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." — Deep Thoughts
"A list of steps isn't helpful if you're facing the wrong way!"
"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent." — Miles Davis
"Be self-full. You have to have in order to give."
"Being wealthy makes my life much more comfortable, but not more fulfilling. For that, I need family, friends, and a job where I work on things that matter. I'm grateful to have all three.” — Bill Gates
"Consciousness is what it feels like to process information in complex ways."
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." — William Jennings Bryan
"Don't bother trying to change the word. The world you see doesn't even exist." — Ramana Maharshi
"Emotions are information, not directives." — Cynthia Barbadette
"Fair is what you pay for a bus ride."
"Harvest the good." — Paul Martinelli
"Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your life, even if it's easier to let go." — Crowfoot
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires." — Epicurus
"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."— William Morris
"In the dark times, you can see bright people very well." — Oksana Galuga
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." — Proverb
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide." — Ben Okri
"My life is not full in spite of the disappointments. It's full because of them."
"Once you learn to read, you will forever be free." — Fredrick Douglass
"Pain without acceptance is suffering." — J.J. Taylor
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." — Newt Gingrich
"Persistence and variety. These are the two primary ways to develop great ideas or to solve important problems." — James Clear
"Power is influence over external events. Peace is influence over internal events." — James Clear
"Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed." — Karen Armstrong
"Remove the branches of a thorn bush today and you'll avoid a scrape this year. But next year, you'll face the same problem again. Remove the root of the bush today, and the entire plant will die. Are you solving problems at the branch level or the root level?" — James Clear
"Striving to find meaning in life is healthier than trying to avoid problems."
"That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think." — Brian Stokes Mitchell
"The definition of an optimist is someone how believes the future is uncertain. A pessimist is always right, but they derive no pleasure from it." — Robert Downey Jr.
"The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.”
"The past is always present in the future." — James Baldwin
"The say you don't know what you have until it's gone. So I sold everything to see what I had." — Steven Wright
"The world is a tragedy for those who think. And tragedy for those who feel." — Horace Walpole
"There's no such thing as bad weather. Only inappropriate clothing."
"To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now. ..the first task is to let go." — Dr. William Bridges
"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude." — Charles Swindoll
"What's meant to break you makes you brave."
"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious." — Letitia Landon
"When the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers." — Oscar Wilde
"When we make the intolerable tolerable, we sow the seeds of our own future disaster." — Said by a Major in the Israeli army, as retold by Paul Martinelli in an email March 6, 2020
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." — Rudyard Kiplin
"You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face."
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." — Mary Tyler Moore
"You still wanna take me to prison just because I won't trade humanity for patriotism." — Immortal Technique
“7 Habits of Genuine People: 1) They speak their mind. 2) They respond to internal expectations, not just external ones. 3) They forge their now paths. 4) They view failure as an integral part of their journey. 5) They can admit their faults. 6) They are not judgemental of others. 7) They have solid self-esteem.” — Psychology Today
“A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” — Amit Kalantri
“After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” — Will Rogers
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” ― Stephanie Garber (Once Upon a Broken Heart)
“Apatheia, in Stoicism, refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions. It might better be translated by the word equanimity than the word indifference. The meaning of the word apatheia is quite different from that of the modern English apathy, which has a distinctly negative connotation. According to the Stoics, apatheia was the quality that characterized the sage.”
“At your highest moment, be careful... That's when the devil comes for you!" — Denzel Washington
“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.” — William Arthur Ward
“By making your own heart the object of your affection, you invite the truth of others to be recognized beyond the characters they’re imagined to be. With love as your guide, the uniqueness of all can be equally appreciated, without the pain of conflict dividing you from another.” — Matt Kahn
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Creativity is curiosity plus anticipation. When all I have is a 7-inch frying pan you’ll always have to throw the big fish away. Don’t throw back the big fish. Throw away the frying pan and get a bigger one.”
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” — James Stephens
“Doesn’t matter what it’s like outside, it can be a beautiful day, inside." — Mr. Rogers
“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” — George Meredith
“Emotions are anticipations of outcomes." — Yann Lecun
“Everything that has a front, has a back.”
“Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is the best teacher. Reflective thinking is needed to turn experience into insight.” — John Maxwell
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker
“For a Stoic, always concerned with the distinction between the free man, master of himself and in control of his mind and actions, and the slave, conquered and overpowered by external circumstances, loved but wanted to make sure they were not driven to madness by this love.” — The Daily Stoic
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” — Thomas Carlyle
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.” — Rick Warren
“I am reminded daily that the essence of life lies in transition, where hope and creativity, insight, and possibility reside.” — Susan Bridges (from Managing Transitions, 4th Edition, Page x).
“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” — Joyce Meyer
“I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy with it.” — Groucho Marx
“I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are.” — eden ahbez
“I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.” — Jennifer Hyman
“If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.” — Sushant Singh Rajput
“If you’re suffering you just have to learn how to suffer best.” — Ricky Haro
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.” — John Stuart Mill
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.” — François de La Rochefoucauld
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin
“It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.” — William Bridges
“It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.” — Jean Nidetch
“Man was made for conflict, not for rest. In action is his power; not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.” ― Greg Kincaid
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” — Isaiah 54:17
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Prediction is the essence of intelligence.” — Yann Lecun
“Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.” — Jean Chatzky
“Self awareness is the highest form of intelligence.”
“Stoic happiness (eudaimonia) is a life lived with apatheia, free from desire, pain, grief, or fear, without passion.”
“Stoic lover will prioritize the giving of love over the receiving of it. Attuned to the whole—the world, the universe, mankind—and in a sense “loved” by it, the lover can relinquish the love of the particular. Individualized love is not unimportant, far from it, but it is not the extent or essence of love.” — The Daily Stoic
“The AI’s that wanted to protect us, date us, and end us were all the same AI, just with slightly different prompts.”
“The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.” — Robert Orben
“The encounter with something truly admirable produces the instinct of awe…it’s a marker that you’re in the presence of something greater than yourself.” — Jordan Peterson
“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in love.” — Psalm 103:8
“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.” — Joshua Waitzkin
“The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.” — Peroverb
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’” — Jack Kerouac (On The Road) NOTE: This piece inspired Katie Perry's song "Firework"
“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.” — Gustav Mahler
“The remedy is not to suppress negative experiences. Rather, it is to foster positive experiences, and in particular, to take them in so they become a permanent part of you.” — Rick Hanson
“The subtext of all magic is: that things aren’t always how they appear. And that means there is HOPE!” — Kim Silverman
“The world arose through the random combination of atoms, and both tragedies and comedies consist of the same atoms.” — Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC). On Generation and Corruption
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats
“Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.” — Dan Miller
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods
“To make the soul grow, everything is needed—the loss more than anything else.” — Marina Cvetaeva
“Transitions in life can offer opportunities for discovery.” — Robbie Shell
“We become self aware when we understand what is going on in other people’s minds. This requires a model, a mirror if you will, to observe our own experiences. This mirror is what we consciously experience—a simulation of reality.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” ― Epicurus
“Whatever the ultimate nature of reality may turn out to be, it's completely different from how it seems.” — Max Tegmark
“When you decide to show up consistently as the best version of who you, it gives you your best opportunity to meet people where they are, and you never know when someone will need you to be your best.” — Ryan Estes
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
“You have buried someone you loved. Now look for someone to love. It is better to make good the loss of a friend than to cry over him.” — Seneca
“Your confidence will follow your focus. Don’t reach into tomorrow to borrow worry. Reach into your past to borrow faith.” — Steve Furtick
”Exploration is curiosity put into action." — Don Walsh
“It's much easier to quench your first wish. than to satisfy those who follow.” — Francois of La Rochefoucauld)
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” — Alfred North Whitehead
“Unmanaged transition makes change unmanageable.” — William Bridges
“Transition begins with an ending and ends with a beginning.” — William Bridges
“Just because everything has changed, doesn’t mean anything is different around here.”
“Chaos is not a mess, but rather it os the primal state of pure energy to which the person returns for every true beginning.” — William Bridges
“Diseases always attack when exposed to change.” — Herodotus
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” — Proverb
“Detachment doesn’t mean you own nothing; it means nothings owns you.” — Bhagavad Gita
“it’s hard to speak from your heart if your heart is still broken.” — Harris III
“I watch a lot of speakers who have convinced themselves they are, but their audiences know otherwise. They know, because they’re not just speaking, they’re performing. And when we’re performing, we’re usually trying to overcompensate for an insecurity, rooted in a wound that hasn’t been healed.” — Harris III
“Like an amateur magician who moves their hands too quickly during the part where they do the “secret move,” when you try to hide insecurities from an audience, they get that “something’s up right now” feeling and it erodes their trust.” — Harris III
"What's meant to break you makes you brave."
“Everything that has a front, has a back.”
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." —Proverb
“At your highest moment, be careful... That's when the devil comes for you!" — Denzel Washington
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” ― Stephanie Garber (Once Upon a Broken Heart)
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” — Isaiah 54:17
“7 Habits of Genuine People: 1) They speak their mind. 2) They respond to internal expectations, not just external ones. 3) They forge their now paths. 4) They view failure as an integral part of their journey. 5) They can admit their faults. 6) They are not judgemental of others. 7) They have solid self-esteem.” — Psychology Today
“Your confidence will follow your focus. Don’t reach into tomorrow to borrow worry. Reach into your past to borrow faith.” — Steve Furtick
“The encounter with something truly admirable produces the instinct of awe…it’s a marker that you’re in the presence of something greater than yourself.” — Jordan Peterson
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." — Deep Thoughts
“If you’re suffering you just have to learn how to suffer best.” — Ricky Haro
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’” — Jack Kerouac (On The Road) NOTE: This piece inspired Katie Perry's song "Firework"
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." — Deep Thoughts
"A list of steps isn't helpful if you're facing the wrong way!"
"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent." — Miles Davis
"Be self-full. You have to have in order to give."
"Being wealthy makes my life much more comfortable, but not more fulfilling. For that, I need family, friends, and a job where I work on things that matter. I'm grateful to have all three.” — Bill Gates
"Consciousness is what it feels like to process information in complex ways."
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." — William Jennings Bryan
"Don't bother trying to change the word. The world you see doesn't even exist." — Ramana Maharshi
"Emotions are information, not directives." — Cynthia Barbadette
"Fair is what you pay for a bus ride."
"Harvest the good." — Paul Martinelli
"Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your life, even if it's easier to let go." — Crowfoot
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires." — Epicurus
"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."— William Morris
"In the dark times, you can see bright people very well." — Oksana Galuga
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." — Proverb
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide." — Ben Okri
"My life is not full in spite of the disappointments. It's full because of them."
"Once you learn to read, you will forever be free." — Fredrick Douglass
"Pain without acceptance is suffering." — J.J. Taylor
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." — Newt Gingrich
"Persistence and variety. These are the two primary ways to develop great ideas or to solve important problems." — James Clear
"Power is influence over external events. Peace is influence over internal events." — James Clear
"Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed." — Karen Armstrong
"Remove the branches of a thorn bush today and you'll avoid a scrape this year. But next year, you'll face the same problem again. Remove the root of the bush today, and the entire plant will die. Are you solving problems at the branch level or the root level?" — James Clear
"Striving to find meaning in life is healthier than trying to avoid problems."
"That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think." — Brian Stokes Mitchell
"The definition of an optimist is someone how believes the future is uncertain. A pessimist is always right, but they derive no pleasure from it." — Robert Downey Jr.
"The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.”
"The past is always present in the future." — James Baldwin
"The say you don't know what you have until it's gone. So I sold everything to see what I had." — Steven Wright
"The world is a tragedy for those who think. And tragedy for those who feel." — Horace Walpole
"There's no such thing as bad weather. Only inappropriate clothing."
"To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now. ..the first task is to let go." — Dr. William Bridges
"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude." — Charles Swindoll
"What's meant to break you makes you brave."
"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious." — Letitia Landon
"When the gods want to punish us, they answer our prayers." — Oscar Wilde
"When we make the intolerable tolerable, we sow the seeds of our own future disaster." — Said by a Major in the Israeli army, as retold by Paul Martinelli in an email March 6, 2020
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." — Rudyard Kiplin
"You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face."
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." — Mary Tyler Moore
"You still wanna take me to prison just because I won't trade humanity for patriotism." — Immortal Technique
“7 Habits of Genuine People: 1) They speak their mind. 2) They respond to internal expectations, not just external ones. 3) They forge their now paths. 4) They view failure as an integral part of their journey. 5) They can admit their faults. 6) They are not judgemental of others. 7) They have solid self-esteem.” — Psychology Today
“A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” — Amit Kalantri
“After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” — Will Rogers
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” ― Stephanie Garber (Once Upon a Broken Heart)
“Apatheia, in Stoicism, refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions. It might better be translated by the word equanimity than the word indifference. The meaning of the word apatheia is quite different from that of the modern English apathy, which has a distinctly negative connotation. According to the Stoics, apatheia was the quality that characterized the sage.”
“At your highest moment, be careful... That's when the devil comes for you!" — Denzel Washington
“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.” — William Arthur Ward
“By making your own heart the object of your affection, you invite the truth of others to be recognized beyond the characters they’re imagined to be. With love as your guide, the uniqueness of all can be equally appreciated, without the pain of conflict dividing you from another.” — Matt Kahn
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Creativity is curiosity plus anticipation. When all I have is a 7-inch frying pan you’ll always have to throw the big fish away. Don’t throw back the big fish. Throw away the frying pan and get a bigger one.”
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” — James Stephens
“Doesn’t matter what it’s like outside, it can be a beautiful day, inside." — Mr. Rogers
“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” — George Meredith
“Emotions are anticipations of outcomes." — Yann Lecun
“Everything that has a front, has a back.”
“Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is the best teacher. Reflective thinking is needed to turn experience into insight.” — John Maxwell
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker
“For a Stoic, always concerned with the distinction between the free man, master of himself and in control of his mind and actions, and the slave, conquered and overpowered by external circumstances, loved but wanted to make sure they were not driven to madness by this love.” — The Daily Stoic
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” — Thomas Carlyle
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.” — Rick Warren
“I am reminded daily that the essence of life lies in transition, where hope and creativity, insight, and possibility reside.” — Susan Bridges (from Managing Transitions, 4th Edition, Page x).
“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” — Joyce Meyer
“I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy with it.” — Groucho Marx
“I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are.” — eden ahbez
“I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.” — Jennifer Hyman
“If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.” — Sushant Singh Rajput
“If you’re suffering you just have to learn how to suffer best.” — Ricky Haro
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.” — John Stuart Mill
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.” — François de La Rochefoucauld
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin
“It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.” — William Bridges
“It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.” — Jean Nidetch
“Man was made for conflict, not for rest. In action is his power; not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.” ― Greg Kincaid
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” — Isaiah 54:17
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Prediction is the essence of intelligence.” — Yann Lecun
“Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.” — Jean Chatzky
“Self awareness is the highest form of intelligence.”
“Stoic happiness (eudaimonia) is a life lived with apatheia, free from desire, pain, grief, or fear, without passion.”
“Stoic lover will prioritize the giving of love over the receiving of it. Attuned to the whole—the world, the universe, mankind—and in a sense “loved” by it, the lover can relinquish the love of the particular. Individualized love is not unimportant, far from it, but it is not the extent or essence of love.” — The Daily Stoic
“The AI’s that wanted to protect us, date us, and end us were all the same AI, just with slightly different prompts.”
“The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.” — Robert Orben
“The encounter with something truly admirable produces the instinct of awe…it’s a marker that you’re in the presence of something greater than yourself.” — Jordan Peterson
“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in love.” — Psalm 103:8
“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.” — Joshua Waitzkin
“The one who watches the wind will not sow seed, and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.” — Peroverb
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’” — Jack Kerouac (On The Road) NOTE: This piece inspired Katie Perry's song "Firework"
“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.” — Gustav Mahler
“The remedy is not to suppress negative experiences. Rather, it is to foster positive experiences, and in particular, to take them in so they become a permanent part of you.” — Rick Hanson
“The subtext of all magic is: that things aren’t always how they appear. And that means there is HOPE!” — Kim Silverman
“The world arose through the random combination of atoms, and both tragedies and comedies consist of the same atoms.” — Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC). On Generation and Corruption
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats
“Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.” — Dan Miller
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods
“To make the soul grow, everything is needed—the loss more than anything else.” — Marina Cvetaeva
“Transitions in life can offer opportunities for discovery.” — Robbie Shell
“We become self aware when we understand what is going on in other people’s minds. This requires a model, a mirror if you will, to observe our own experiences. This mirror is what we consciously experience—a simulation of reality.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” ― Epicurus
“Whatever the ultimate nature of reality may turn out to be, it's completely different from how it seems.” — Max Tegmark
“When you decide to show up consistently as the best version of who you, it gives you your best opportunity to meet people where they are, and you never know when someone will need you to be your best.” — Ryan Estes
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
“You have buried someone you loved. Now look for someone to love. It is better to make good the loss of a friend than to cry over him.” — Seneca
“Your confidence will follow your focus. Don’t reach into tomorrow to borrow worry. Reach into your past to borrow faith.” — Steve Furtick
”Exploration is curiosity put into action." — Don Walsh
“It's much easier to quench your first wish. than to satisfy those who follow.” — Francois of La Rochefoucauld)
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” — Alfred North Whitehead
“Unmanaged transition makes change unmanageable.” — William Bridges
“Transition begins with an ending and ends with a beginning.” — William Bridges
“Just because everything has changed, doesn’t mean anything is different around here.”
“Chaos is not a mess, but rather it os the primal state of pure energy to which the person returns for every true beginning.” — William Bridges
“Diseases always attack when exposed to change.” — Herodotus
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” — Proverb
“Detachment doesn’t mean you own nothing; it means nothings owns you.” — Bhagavad Gita
“it’s hard to speak from your heart if your heart is still broken.” — Harris III
“I watch a lot of speakers who have convinced themselves they are, but their audiences know otherwise. They know, because they’re not just speaking, they’re performing. And when we’re performing, we’re usually trying to overcompensate for an insecurity, rooted in a wound that hasn’t been healed.” — Harris III
“Like an amateur magician who moves their hands too quickly during the part where they do the “secret move,” when you try to hide insecurities from an audience, they get that “something’s up right now” feeling and it erodes their trust.” — Harris III
"What's meant to break you makes you brave."
“Everything that has a front, has a back.”
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." —Proverb
“At your highest moment, be careful... That's when the devil comes for you!" — Denzel Washington
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” ― Stephanie Garber (Once Upon a Broken Heart)
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” — Isaiah 54:17
“7 Habits of Genuine People: 1) They speak their mind. 2) They respond to internal expectations, not just external ones. 3) They forge their now paths. 4) They view failure as an integral part of their journey. 5) They can admit their faults. 6) They are not judgemental of others. 7) They have solid self-esteem.” — Psychology Today
“Your confidence will follow your focus. Don’t reach into tomorrow to borrow worry. Reach into your past to borrow faith.” — Steve Furtick
“The encounter with something truly admirable produces the instinct of awe…it’s a marker that you’re in the presence of something greater than yourself.” — Jordan Peterson
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." — Deep Thoughts
“If you’re suffering you just have to learn how to suffer best.” — Ricky Haro
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’” — Jack Kerouac (On The Road) NOTE: This piece inspired Katie Perry's song "Firework"
