Quotes

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski

The mind of a child is a beginner's mind and beginner's mind is about having sort of an attitude of openness and eagerness and a lack of preconceptions, when it comes to studying a subject. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. So by approaching a subject, the way a beginner or a child would, we... See more

Beginner – Foxy Music

Dominik Schwarz

Author Mary H.K. Choi on the importance of not waiting: "It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early."

Myq Kaplan

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

― La Rochefoucauld

Gurwinder • Tweet

rob hardy

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873

Dylano | Essayful • Tweet

rob hardy

"Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” -Charlie Munger

Dominik Schwarz

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me.

https://adultchildren.org/literature/aca-serenity-prayer/

Myq Kaplan

A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.

People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching... See more

Sam Altman • How to Be Successful

Dominik Schwarz

"nobody can be wise alone" -- ursula k le guin

Myq Kaplan