Happiness is a form of courage.
You have to leave home to find home.
Everyday you have a choice: you can accept things as they are or you can take responsibility for changing them.
Time is the only currency.
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself —
And there isn’t one.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small differences we can make which, over time, add up to the big differences that we often cannot foresee.
It went back to the motivation of the people who built them, tested them, and flew them. It showed what can happen when people believe that the thing they are working on is the most important thing they will do in their lives, and they don’t want to be responsible for screwing it up
Given the enormity of the challenge, and all the moving parts, how the people of the Apollo missions succeeded in putting men on the moon with relatively few errors.
Andrew Chaiken, A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Firstly, you’re assuming I wouldn’t just cross the river alone and take off for parts unknown. But let’s assume I’m in a good mood. Here is how I...
