“ When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. Words by: Viktor Frankl ” #Viktor Frankl#Meaning#Life#Distraction#Pleasure#Quote September 20, 2021
“ 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. Words by: Marcus Aurelius ” #Marcus Aurelius#Meditations#Stoicism#Wisdom#Life#Quote September 10, 2021
“ 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. Words by: Amos Tversky ” #Amos Tversky#Pessimism#Life#Quote August 28, 2021
“ If you could walk on water, your haters would say it’s because you can’t swim. Words by: David Goggins ” #David Goggins#Walk on water#Haters#Life#Quote June 18, 2021
“ You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind. Words by: Kevin Kelly ” #Kevin Kelly#Life#Change#Wisdom#Quote#Mind May 14, 2021
“ What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. Words by: Lucille Clifton ” #Lucille Clifton#Wisdom#Life#Quote February 1, 2021
“ 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. Words by: Elon Musk ” #Elon Musk#Life#Meaning of Life#Wisdom#Quote January 30, 2021
“ We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. Words by: Jeremy Irons ” #Jeremy Irons#Time#Time Machine#Memories#Dreams#Life#Quote January 23, 2021
“ Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. Words by: Publilius Syrus ” #Publilius Syrus#Life#Wisdom#Quote December 13, 2020
“ 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. Words by: Lisa Feldman Barrett ” #Lisa Feldman Barrett#Life#Quote#Human behaviour September 21, 2020
“ It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. Words by: John Updike ” #John Updike#Memory#Love#Life#Quote April 14, 2020
“ A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. Words by: Gilles Deleuze ” #Gilles Deleuze#Philosophy#Concept#Life#Quote April 6, 2020
“ 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. Words by: Alfred Hitchcoc, ” #Alfred Hitchcock#Happiness#Clear Horizon#Life#Wisdom September 13, 2019
“ Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Words by: Marcus Aurelius ” #Marcus Aurelius#Stoicism#Integrity#Life#Wisdom#Quote September 4, 2019
“ We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. Words by: Confucius ” #Confucius#Life#Realisation#Wisdom#Quote August 19, 2019
