Quotes
Quotes I’ve Picked Up Here and There
Quotes
“Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don't intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images... Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode.”
💭 On energy, exploding & priorities
Most of the people we try to impress are busy trying to impress someone else.
The spotlight effect is the habit of overestimating how much others focus on us. We don't see how preoccupied they are with themselves.
True confidence stems from self-respect, not social approval.
Adam Grantsubstack.com
All of them gather around a prayer, and the prayer is to be useful,” he says.
Bono
1. Serve the tea. Practice common acts of generosity and humility, like serving tea to visitors in your home. Small acts require conscious intention to begin with but can become a habit in short order.
2. Show your teeth. To the Dalai Lama, to “show your teeth” means to smile authentically—no half smiles, no Mona Lisa–style ambiguity. The true
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But if you can make honesty and self-awareness your superpower, you will become happier, more empathetic, and more successful in all you do.
And as Shakespeare asserts in his comedy As You Like It, “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man / knows himself to be a fool.”
Mufti Menk said, "Sometimes, just listening and not saying anything is the best answer. Remember that your silence can't be misquoted"