You should exercise unrelenting discipline over your thought patterns. Cultivate only productive attitudes…. You are the product of everything you put into your body and mind.
—I Ching (Book of Changes) #27, 2nd Century BC
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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center and enjoy the bright day; but he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, benighted, walks under the mid-day sun, himself his...
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow (Image Licensed by Penn Wealth)
When something is important enough you do it, even if the odds are not in your favor. — Elon Musk (Image Licensed by Penn Wealth) Early on, Musk noted the odds of Tesla and SpaceX being successful...
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them. — Phyllis Diller (Public Domain)
The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question...
It is amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. — Charles Kettering (American inventor and engineer; Image Licensed) Although it may seem counterintuitive,...
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. — Josh Billings (by Sarony; Public Domain)
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. — Franklin Pierce Adams (Public Domain)
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on the road. Both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had...
No one ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your...
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. — William Shakespeare (1610, by John Taylor; Public Domain)
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. — Franklin Pierce Adams (Public Domain)
I’d rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. — J. Paul Getty (Image Licensed)
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. — Sun Tzu (544-496 BC; Public Domain) How fitting a quote for these times we are living through. Even more fitting is the source, considering the...
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness....
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke (by Joshua Reynolds; Public Domain)
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat found. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron; Public Domain)
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. — Abraham Lincoln (1863, by Alexander Gardner; Public Domain)
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. — William James (by Notman Studios; Public Domain)
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. — Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian (1690; Creative Commons)
