There’s no inspiration in logic. There’s no courage in logic. There’s not even happiness in logic. There’s only satisfaction.
Author: Albert E.N. Gray | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Insight, Inspiration, Motivation, Psychology | Behavior
Remember needs are logical while wants and desires are sentimental and emotional. Your needs will push you just so far, but when your needs are satisfied, they will stop pushing you. If, however, your purpose is in terms of wants or desires, then your wants and desires are fulfilled.
Author: Albert E.N. Gray | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Desires, Motivation, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Every single qualification for success is acquired through habit. People form habits and habits form futures. If you do not deliberately form good habits, then unconsciously you will form bad ones. You are the kind of person you are because you have formed the habit of being that kind of person, and the only way you can change is through habit.
Author: Albert E.N. Gray | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure
The common denominator of success — the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful — lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do. […] Because by doing the things they don’t like to do, they can accomplish the things they want to accomplish. Successful people are influenced by the desire for … [ Read more ]
Author: Albert E.N. Gray | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch | Subject: Environment | Sustainability
The Earth belongs in use to the living… No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.
Author: Thomas Jefferson | Subjects: Environment | Sustainability, Politics & Public Policy
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
Author: Baba Dioum | Subject: Environment | Sustainability
The most ominous of fallacies — the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
Author: Freya Stark | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
Author: Dan Millman | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Insight, Life & Society
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that place will be proud of him.
Author: Abraham Lincoln | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Author: Gandhi | Subject: Environment | Sustainability
…we cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well—for we will not fight to save what we do not love (but only appreciate in some abstract sense).
Author: Stephen Jay Gould | Subject: Environment | Sustainability
The future is not someplace we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made.
Author: Jane Garvey | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it. For if it were accepted as a result of argument, the refutation of the argument might shake the solidity of the conviction; but when it rests solely on feeling, the worse it fares in argumentative contest, the more … [ Read more ]
Author: John Stuart Mill | Subjects: Communication, Education | Scholarship, Facts | Bias, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry
The price that man pays for consciousness is insecurity. He can stand his insecurity by being aware and accepting the human condition, and by the hope that he will not fail even though he has no guarantee for success.
Author: Erich Fromm | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Hope, Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
Hope — and the wise, effective action that can spring from it — is the counterweight to the heavy sense of our own fragility. It is a continual negotiation between optimism and despair, a continual negation of cynicism and naïveté. We hope precisely because we are aware that terrible outcomes are always possible and often probable, but that the choices we make can impact the … [ Read more ]
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Hope, Insight, Life & Society
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.
Author: Stephen Ambrose | Subjects: Life & Society, Nature
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be ‘for’ or ‘against.’ The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease.
Author: Sēngcàn (Sent -ts’an) | Source: TED | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement
We live in a world where all style and no substance will get you farther than no style and all substance.
Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation
Tarde o temprano aprenderemos que los amores más grandes pueden terminar en una sola noche. Que los mejores amigos pueden transformarse en grandes desconocidos y que éstos pueden convertirse en grandes amigos.
Tarde o temprano, aprenderemos que nunca terminamos de conocer a alguien, ni siquiera a nosotros mismos. Que el ”nunca más” nunca se cumple, y que el ”para siempre” siempre se termina.
Tarde o temprano, … [ Read more ]
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Personal Improvement, Wisdom