quotes

You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.

Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "

Howard Thurman

Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

— Cormac McCarthy

Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

We look at the world once, in childhood.

The rest is memory.

— Louise Gluck

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” — Henri Bergson

mymind x.com

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

— Henri Bergson

Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

MIT OpenCourseWare • How to Speak

From Patrick Winston’s How to speak session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&t=925s