quotes i like

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”

― John Lennon

“What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.”

― Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

Guilt depends on one’s own standards and self-evaluation, while shame depends on societal standards and public judgment.

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
― Golda Meir

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

-David Ogilvy

"I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has difficulty in lay

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

— Bob Moawad