2099 Quotations Found

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Author: Michael J. Gelb | Subject: Creativity and Innovation

A man once told The Buddha, “I want happiness.” The Buddha replied, “First, remove ‘I’, that’s ego. Then remove ‘want’, that’s desire. And now all you’re left with is Happiness.”

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

The most dangerous risk of all is spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The interested person will do what is convenient. The committed person will do whatever it takes.

Author: John Assaraf | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

Author: Roshi | Subject: Personal Improvement

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Experience is a different teacher, giving you the test first and the lesson after.

Author: Amish Proverb | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Personal Improvement

Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt | Subjects: Business, Personal Improvement

Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place.

Author: Rabbi Elimelech | Subject: Religion

One of the things the story teaches us is this: Read yourself as a fiction as well as a fact. […] Learning to read yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is liberating — it is the difference between energy and mass.

Author: Jeanette Winterson | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement

Reading is an adventure. Adventures are about the unknown. When I started to read seriously I was excited and comforted all at the same time. Literature is a mix of unfamiliarity and recognition. The situation can take us anywhere — across time and space, the globe, through the lives of people who can never be like us — into the heart of anguish we have … [ Read more ]

Author: Jeanette Winterson | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing

Write what you know is reasonable advice. Read what you don’t know is better advice.

Author: Jeanette Winterson | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing

We read for countless reasons and books transform us in countless ways, reckoned and unreckoned. We read the way we love — with our whole selves, with the flickering constellation of values, longings, traumas, joys, hopes, despairs, formative experiences, and half-remembered impressions composing the self. We read with our whole being, but we also read ourselves into being as each book quietly reconfigures the constellation … [ Read more ]

Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing

What it means to be happy differs widely among people. Some of us, when we say we want to be happy, actually mean that we want to feel calm and relaxed. That’s what we would consider a state of happiness. Then there are others who would say, “I want to be excited and enthusiastic. And if I’m feeling that, then I am happy.” There may … [ Read more ]

Author: Jochen Menges | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Anger is the deepest form of compassion. The internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for.

Author: David Whyte | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Author: Leo Buscaglia | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Religion

It matters not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Subject: Personal Improvement

Politics is a game of competing stories about a nation’s self-identity, and between differing symbols of its greatness.

Authors: Richard Rorty, Sean Illing | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

It’s very difficult to dispel ignorance if you retain arrogance.

Author: Sam Wilson | Source: Ken Burns Vietnam documentary | Subjects: Communication, Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement

It’s easy to spend your energy labeling people rather than working with them.

Author: James Clear | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships