words, inspiration, contemplationhttps://gregorjakac.com/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-09-30-796100074782539776/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-09-30-796100074782539776/Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons. — Denzel WashingtonTue, 30 Sep 2025 10:16:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-09-23-795464911378628608/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-09-23-795464911378628608/If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. — Armand Jean du PlessisTue, 23 Sep 2025 10:00:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-07-22-789754810870136832/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-07-22-789754810870136832/The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck. — Paul VirilioTue, 22 Jul 2025 09:21:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-04-03-779787059340722176/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-04-03-779787059340722176/Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime. — Nassim Nicholas TalebThu, 03 Apr 2025 08:48:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-02-14-775448075641765888/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2025-02-14-775448075641765888/Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:21:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-11-26-768195479975706624/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-11-26-768195479975706624/You become a more positive, peaceful, and a harmonic person when you don’t react to people that use you as a mirror for their own self-hate. — Gaspard UllielTue, 26 Nov 2024 09:04:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-07-29-757330157501579264/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-07-29-757330157501579264/The cold water doesn’t get warmer if you jump late.Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:45:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-07-19-756411512691818496/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-07-19-756411512691818496/The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. — VirgilFri, 19 Jul 2024 08:23:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-06-07-752619115844386816/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-06-07-752619115844386816/The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end, it would not have reached its goal either. — NietzscheFri, 07 Jun 2024 11:45:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-05-17-750705885467361280/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-05-17-750705885467361280/The moments when it’s the most difficult to be kind are the moments where it matters the most. — Seth GodinFri, 17 May 2024 08:55:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-04-25-748708929931034624/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-04-25-748708929931034624/Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:54:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-01-09-739023926190129152/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2024-01-09-739023926190129152/If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. — Hermann HesseTue, 09 Jan 2024 09:15:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-12-20-737206147478618112/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-12-20-737206147478618112/I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May AlcottWed, 20 Dec 2023 07:42:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-10-19-731603376058630144/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-10-19-731603376058630144/To a disciple who was forever complaining about others, the Master said, ‘If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth. — Anthony de MelloThu, 19 Oct 2023 12:29:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-09-06-727703709873733632/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-09-06-727703709873733632/You cannot paint your entire life with a singular brush stroke. — Kyle CreekWed, 06 Sep 2023 11:25:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-05-30-718728773746540544/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-05-30-718728773746540544/If your views on other things can be predicted from your views on one thing, you need to be very careful that you’re not in the grip of an ideologue. — Kevin KellyTue, 30 May 2023 09:52:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-05-22-718022721955561472/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2023-05-22-718022721955561472/Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage. — Amelia EarhartMon, 22 May 2023 14:50:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-10-04-697157028158783488/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-10-04-697157028158783488/Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own. — Richard Francis BurtonTue, 04 Oct 2022 07:19:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-09-16-695551729657348096/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-09-16-695551729657348096/If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — SenecaFri, 16 Sep 2022 14:03:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-07-05-688924872511995904/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-07-05-688924872511995904/It is better to starve to death in a calm and confident state of mind than to live anxiously amidst abundance. — EpictetusTue, 05 Jul 2022 10:32:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-06-30-688469087361400832/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-06-30-688469087361400832/You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. — Kahlil GibranThu, 30 Jun 2022 09:48:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-04-29-682849739762532352/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2022-04-29-682849739762532352/He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears. — SenecaFri, 29 Apr 2022 09:10:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-11-05-666997182337056768/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-11-05-666997182337056768/If people can’t control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people’s behavior. — Robin SkynnerFri, 05 Nov 2021 08:41:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-09-20-662839328624476160/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-09-20-662839328624476160/When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. — Viktor FranklMon, 20 Sep 2021 12:14:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-09-10-661942809153208320/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-09-10-661942809153208320/Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill … I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together. — Marcus AureliusFri, 10 Sep 2021 14:44:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-08-28-660749236710801408/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-08-28-660749236710801408/When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens. — Amos TverskySat, 28 Aug 2021 10:32:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-06-29-655315658333110273/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-06-29-655315658333110273/People prefer their sources of information to be highly correlated. Then all the messages you get are consistent with each other and you’re comfortable. — Daniel KahnemanTue, 29 Jun 2021 11:08:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-06-18-654317027328180224/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-06-18-654317027328180224/If you could walk on water, your haters would say it’s because you can’t swim. — David GogginsFri, 18 Jun 2021 10:35:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-05-14-651161599587106816/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-05-14-651161599587106816/You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind. — Kevin KellyFri, 14 May 2021 14:41:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-05-08-651161818853687296/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-05-08-651161818853687296/Human beings tend to think that tomorrow will look like today. But there are always discontinuities and surprises. — James StavridisSat, 08 May 2021 14:45:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-03-02-644536747784568832/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-03-02-644536747784568832/Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:42:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-02-01-641906888067497984/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-02-01-641906888067497984/What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. — Lucille CliftonMon, 01 Feb 2021 10:01:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-01-30-641728545359577088/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-01-30-641728545359577088/You need to feel life. The sensory experience of life, you can’t get too caught up in the cold calculus of the cortex. You need to feel it in the limbic system, ask yourself, what does your heart say? And then take a moment to appreciate the many good things in life. — Elon MuskSat, 30 Jan 2021 10:47:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-01-28-641538565194530816/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-01-28-641538565194530816/I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. — James BaldwinThu, 28 Jan 2021 08:27:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-01-23-641086618668875776/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2021-01-23-641086618668875776/We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. — Jeremy IronsSat, 23 Jan 2021 08:44:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-12-13-637395264500563968/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-12-13-637395264500563968/Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. — Publilius SyrusSun, 13 Dec 2020 14:51:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-09-21-629882275062005760/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-09-21-629882275062005760/When people say “don’t be sad, don’t be angry”, really, what they’re saying is, “I don’t want to deal with you being angry or sad, and I don’t want to feel that way, so I want you to calm down. — Lisa Feldman BarrettMon, 21 Sep 2020 17:35:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-06-30-622340887371005952/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-06-30-622340887371005952/You do something all day long, don’t you? Every one does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours, and it is certain with most people, that they have been doing something all the time. They have been either walking, or reading, or writing, or thinking. The only trouble is that they do it about a great many things and I do it about one. If they took the time in question and applied it in one direction, to one object, they would succeed. Success is sure to follow such application. The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object, one thing, to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application. — Thomas EdisonTue, 30 Jun 2020 11:48:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-05-03-617106679159554048/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-05-03-617106679159554048/I cannot judge what he did, because I did not have his information. — Lee Kuan YewSun, 03 May 2020 17:13:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-04-14-615355451921547264/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-04-14-615355451921547264/It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. — John UpdikeTue, 14 Apr 2020 09:18:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-04-06-614632596650999808/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-04-06-614632596650999808/A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. — Gilles DeleuzeMon, 06 Apr 2020 09:48:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-03-15-612649923706519552/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-03-15-612649923706519552/There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. — Vladimir Ilyich LeninSun, 15 Mar 2020 11:34:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-02-28-611213898873552896/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-02-28-611213898873552896/I think the new heroin addiction is connectivity. It’s a milder, but just as insidious, form of addiction — V. ValeFri, 28 Feb 2020 15:09:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-02-06-190768821883/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-02-06-190768821883/New lifeThu, 06 Feb 2020 12:56:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-01-27-190492382923/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-01-27-190492382923/If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. — Antoine de Saint-ExupéryMon, 27 Jan 2020 09:48:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-01-13-190233943738/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2020-01-13-190233943738/You’ll stop caring what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. — David Foster WallaceMon, 13 Jan 2020 13:34:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-09-27-187976452623/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-09-27-187976452623/The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:29:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-09-13-187690692463/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-09-13-187690692463/A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive and that’s withing yourself. Within me I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people. I think hatred is wasted energy and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive. A sharp word, said by a person who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions but when all these are removed and you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something. I think that’s as happy as I would ever want to be. — Alfred Hitchcoc,Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:16:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-09-04-187484574328/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-09-04-187484574328/Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus AureliusWed, 04 Sep 2019 10:26:00 GMThttps://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-08-19-187121306588/https://gregorjakac.com/post/2019-08-19-187121306588/We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. — ConfuciusMon, 19 Aug 2019 18:09:00 GMT