“The truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.” - Miyamoto Musashi
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for - and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing" - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Spiritual
“Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet, less attached to it.” - Ram Dass
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he’s not the same man” - Heraclitus
“Wherever you go preach the gospel, when necessary, use words.” - Saint Francis
Creativity
"The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable" - Robert Henri
“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music” - Nietzche
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” - E.L Doctorow
“Mastery is unobstructed self-expression” - Josh Waitzkin
“Mastery is the ability to be yourself in any given situation.” - Boyd Varty
Emotional
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - Eileen Sendrey
“Suffering = pain x resistance”
"If we try to change we find resistance. If we want to understand and love ourselves we change." - Gestalt
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead to a deeper understanding of ourselves” - Carl Jung
“I’ve seen the enemy and it’s me” - Robertson (Beginner’s Guide to Jungian Psychology)
“We shouldn’t ask why the addiction we should ask why the pain?” - Gabor Mate
"Desire makes slaves out of kings, while patience makes kings out of slaves" - Sharran Srivatsaa
"Intimacy is about growing more than you could by yourself" - David Deida
Mental
"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." - Anais Nin
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” - Viktor Frankl
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do" - Eleanor Roosevelt
“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” - Seneca
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
"To a disciple who was forever complaining about others, the Master said, 'If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.'" - Anthony de Mello
“Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes” - Carl Jung
“As soon as we take one thing by itself, we find it hitched to everything in the universe” - John Muir
Physical
“A healthy person wants a thousand things, a sick man wants only one” - Confucius
“You can only spend so much time in these wild places before you feel a sense of responsibility to want to protect them” - Yvon Chouinard
“It’s better to be a warrior in the garden than a gardener in a war”
Travel
“Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking” - Antonio Machado
“Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes” - Marcel Proust
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sometimes we get a stamp in our passport just by crossing the street.” - Matthew McConaughey
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” - Nelson Mandela
Work
“If you are doing it for a result in the future you are not doing it.” - In Search for Greatness
“A well-defined problem is half-solved” - idk
"We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training" - Archilochus
“The fundamental problem of humanity is we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and accelerating godlike technology” - Edward O Wilson
“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have” - Tim Ferriss
“The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with” - Tony Robbins
Politics
“At the federal level I’m a libertarian. At the state level I’m a republican. At the town level I’m a democrat. In my family I’m a socialist. With my dog I’m a Marxist.”
“Everything is great about war except the killing.” - Eric Weinstein
“Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe” - H.G. Wells
“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence” - Carl Sagan
Learning
“The number one job of a teacher is not to teach. The number one job of a teacher is to inspire their students to want to learn.” - Dan Casetta
"If your mouth is open, you're not learning" - Buddha
“All lessons are repeated until learned”
"Everyone is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear” - Tao Te Ching
Final Thoughts
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.” - Bruce Lee
“Think not that all wisdom is in your school” - Uncle George Na’ope
“Don’t believe everything you think” - Tim Ferriss