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Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance.Speaker: LaoziSource: the Simple Guide to a Minimalist LifePosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran
And much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man.Speaker: WordsworthSource: hopelesshappiness.comPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I learned an important lesson when I wanted to become a better seimmer – I thought swimming farether and faster was just a matter of trying harder, training harder. I would thrash madly through the water, but was left exhausted. When I learned that the water can actually push you up and help you float, it became much easier to glide through it. I relaxed, stopped trying to force things, and learned to swim better with less effort.
Life is like this. Life is water, and we tend to push too hard, thrash about, force things, struggle. Instead, learn to float, learn to allow things to become effortless. You’ll get farther and life will be that much more pleasant.
Speaker: Leo BabautaSource: Thriving on LessPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Rule #1: If you’re trying to get out of a hole, stop digging.
Speaker: Leo BabautaSource: Thriving on LessPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Speaker: Mahatma GandhiSource: Thriving on LessPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.
Source: the TalmudPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.
Speaker: Murray Gell-MannSource: Predictable IrrationalityPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairSource: Predictably IrrationalPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The success of most people… almost always depends upon the favour and good opinion of their neighbors and equals; and without a tolerably regular conduct these can very seldom be obtained.
Speaker: Adam SmithSource: Predictably IrrationalPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.
Speaker: Herman HesseSource: E-SquaredPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every day I have a job. But in the morning, I think I have a career.
Speaker: Charlotte Walker-SaidSource: What the Most Successful People Do Before BreakfastPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 8:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction – so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people’s movements – that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.
...Most histories understand revolt, overemphasize statesmanship, and thus encourage impotency among citizens.
Speaker: Howard ZinnSource: A People's History of the United StatesPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If Tom had been a grate and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: Predictable IrrationalityPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we try to change without first accepting who we are, we risk creating more false images of ourselves. But if accept ourselves for who we are at this very moment, we change because we want to grow and evolve with life. Love is no longer the condition for change, it is the starting point for change. This is the true meaning of unconditional love.
Speaker: Miguel Ruiz Jr.Source: the Five Levels of AttachmentPosted: 24 Jan 2014 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Self-judgement resides where self-acceptance wishes to be.
Speaker: Miguel Ruiz Jr.Source: the Five Levels of AttachmentPosted: 24 Jan 2014 at 11:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think about. Too often we forget that.
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Way of KingsPosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 12:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will find wise men in any religion. And good men in every nation.
Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others are equally closed-minded.Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Way of KingsPosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 12:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be “as it should,” “as it has ever been.”
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Way of KingsPosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Don’t dream the small dreams of other men.
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Way of KingsPosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Marching through life with a confederate in mirth is one of the greatest pleasures that can befall a man, woman, or chipmunk.
Speaker: Nick OffermanSource: Paddle Your Own CanoePosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 11:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!