Beyond work
Quotes.
Twenty-seven quotes I keep coming back to — on courage, work, travel, and how to live. One of them greets you on the homepage every day.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
SenecaNo man is free who is not master of himself.
EpictetusOne must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.
RumiPeace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
BuddhaYou will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
BuddhaIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
ConfuciusOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
ConfuciusA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao TzuThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo TolstoyIf you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.
African proverbLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma GandhiDarkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson MandelaNothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie CurieTell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
Paulo CoelhoThe only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve JobsWhether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry FordTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert FrostWe don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anaïs NinLife isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard ShawDream is not that which you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.
A.P.J. Abdul KalamThe world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint AugustineYou don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel AdamsDon’t count the days, make the days count.
Muhammad AliYou miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky