âExperience has convinced me that an assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact, that continuous imagination is sufficient for all things, and all my reasonable plans and actions will never make up for my lack of continuous imagination.
[or my over use of imaginationâŚThis quote is referencing The Thomas theorem : a theory of sociology which was formulated in 1928 by William Isaac - "if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequencesâ and this is because they will behave in a way that might bring the situation about. - If I think John Doe hates and is against me, and then I behave and treat him like an enemy, he will most likely actually become one due to my behavior towards him.]â
~Neville Goddard
Fear is the expectation of pain, so its opposite is the expectation of pleasure. The world is what you think it is.
Serge Kahili King
A : You do not listen do you?
B : Oh I listen. And I hear what i want to.
Ein Buch muĂ die Axt sein fĂźr das gefrorene Meer in uns.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
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A man wishing to be unhappy
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Words may flow like a river of wisdom, but true knowledge stands tall like a mountain, unshaken by the fleeting currents.
A sage acts by doing nothing.
If you arenât going all the way, Why go at all?
Unknown
You can make excuses, or you can make things happen. You can not do both.
JP Dinnell
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. Itâs the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation â do whatâs right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. Itâs central, in fact, to civilization.
Roy Baumeister
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
Whatâs past is prologue.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
âWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselvesâ
Oliver Burkeman
âYou have to be wise enough to know when youâre living your dream, and you have to be humble enough to accept when youâre in someone elseâs.â
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
â John F. Kennedy
Gender is a scam made up by bathroom companies to sell more bathrooms.
âI hate luxury. I exercise moderationâŚIt will be easy to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.â - Genghis Khan
âDefeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality - in your own mind.â
~Bruce Lee