A few useful quotes
Quotes are not truths with a capital T. They are just frameworks to look at things. Take this quote, for example:
“All of our miseries are nothing but attachment.” — Osho
This quote gives an interesting perspective. Nothing more than that; just a perspective. Interestingly, there can be many perspectives. Here's the anti-quote of Osho's quote:
“The sweetness of life lies in connections and attachments." — Rohit
Now, here are some quotes I want to keep revisiting. The list might change as I change my perspective toward things:
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no such thing as ‘adults’. No one has answers. Everyone is just winging it. — Amit Varma
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. — Herbert Simon
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. — Winston Churchill
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau
Look for single decisions that remove hundreds or thousands of other decisions. — Tim Ferris
You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. — Benjamin Graham
No writing creates no writing. Some writing creates more writing. — Roy Peter Clark
Take a simple idea and take it seriously. — Charlie Munger
The way you do one thing is the way you do everything. — Zen saying (probably)
You don't have to dance alone; you can dance with your shadow. — My friend Ishan Jindal (he said this while dancing with his shadow, 12:35 AM, 20 March 2024)
If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs. ― Derek Sivers
A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one. ― Confucius
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. — Haruki Murakami
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ― Rumi
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born? ― Henry David Thoreau (I couldn't help but publish the whole paragraph instead of only the first sentence.)
Hard work is a great excuse for our minds. When the ego comes attacking, asking why you didn't make it, hard work gives you the ammunition that I tried, I didn't sit on the couch. So I am okay. -- From the internet
Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies. ― Michel de Montaigne
You realize that you’ll never be the best looking person in the room. You’ll never be the smartest person in the room. You’ll never be the most educated, or the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success, is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy. ― Casey Neistat
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. ― John Stuart Mill
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
If you have something wonderful, if you do not defend it, you will lose it. – Journalist Zeynep Tüfekçi