winnie chou

Restlessness is a sign you've overstayed your welcome with where you are and need to leave by moving toward the person you can be. Our love of stability keeps us where we are. The key is to leave just before you’re ready. If you leave too late, you miss the opportunity.

“The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”

— Louis Pasteur

Polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on dealing with critics:

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"Against criticism we can neither protect nor defend ourselves; we must act in despite of it, and gradually it resigns itself to this."

It’s like any kind of fear of rejection: if you want to get over it, do it 100 times.

“You deserve to be loved and chosen — not almost loved, or almost chosen. ... Have the courage to let go of the people who leave your heart confused. Let go of the people who make you feel like you are compromising all that you desire, and all that you hope for, and all of the goodness and the beauty that you know exists in this world, for a skinny... See more

"Mastery requires lots of practice. But the more you practice something, the more boring and routine it becomes.

Thus, an essential component of mastery is the ability to maintain your enthusiasm. The master continues to find the fundamentals interesting."

“Just because results are not visible doesn’t mean they are not accumulating.”

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

"A great relationship is not only finding the person you have fun with, but also finding the person you want to be bored with. The beauty of long-term relationships is often hidden in boring, ordinary moments."