quotes i like

“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

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

-David Ogilvy

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

“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.” ― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“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.