A list of quotes and or small thoughts/phrases that I enjoy
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less"
- Socrates
"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable"
- Socrates
"Have you lived 10,000 or more days, or one day 10,000 or more times?"
- Wayne Dyer
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau
"If I take death into my life, acknolwdge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life—and only then will I be free to become myself"
- Martin Heidegger
"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own"
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"If you seektranquillity, do less (better)"
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Those without dirty hands are wrong"
- Unknown
"Adding more doesn't always lead to more happiness, but always leads to more distraction"
- Me
"You'll stop worrying what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do"
- David Foster Wallace
"Of course, we better not stop, otherwise, we'll have time to think, do introspection, deal with silence - and that is, indeed, scary."
- Raul, minim.blog
"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity"
- Terry A. Davis
"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself"
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Change is never a matter of ability, it is always a matter of motivation"
- Unknown
"No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides"
- Baruch Spinoza
"What's obvious to you can be amazing to others"
- Unknown
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone"
- Blaise Pascal
"If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together"
- Unknown
"I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress"
- Ed Begley Jr
"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short."
- Paul Graham
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates
"He who is contented is rich."
- Lao Tzu
"Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization."
- William Morris
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
- William Morris
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Anyone can see that the pleasure of getting does not translate into the pleasure of having"
- Ran Prieur