quotes
“We’re a species that rushes through everything, then complains that time flies.”
Steve Maraboli
Steve Maraboli
"If you could see the world the way I see it, you’d understand why I behave the way I do." — Axiom of Clinical Psychology
"No one is just a stage. And no measure can explain what it is like to be an individual human. What it is like to walk in your shoes, look through your eyes, feel your feelings and think your thoughts etc."
Susanne Cook-Greuter
“You’ve got to challenge everything I’m saying. But challenge it from an attitude of openness, not from an attitude of stubbornness. And challenge it all. Recall those lovely words of Buddha when he said, “Monks and scholars must not accept my words out of respect, but must analyze them the way a goldsmith analyzes gold—by cutting, scraping,
... See more"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
—E.E. Cummings
“Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy.”
Leo Babaut
Leo Babaut
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves... See more
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama