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Exercise makes a day well lived

You don't have to get everything right. Define the few that must be right, and let go of the rest

Treat the small as large, the few as many, easy as hard

..Be a simple man Oh, be something you love and understand

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

What does your heart tell you?

Walk slowly but walk

A fit, healthy body is the best fashion statement

Action is the antidote to despair

Above all, do not lie to yourself

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

..Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow

Focus on what is important

We jump to conclusions and oversimplify

Half doing is an expensive way of not doing

Look below the surface

Experiences make us happier than material things

We deal out judgment to others and seek understanding for ourselves

Wars not make one great

Need little, want less

Wherever you go, there you are

Don't take yourself too seriously

Il faut cultiver notre jardin

You can't argue with all the fools in the world

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost

How much of our lives have we spent fighting shadows rather than simply enjoying the sun?

Give support, not advice

Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking

Predicting the future is overrated

Soft overcomes hard Weak overcomes strong

All in all it's just another brick in the wall

It's not personal

Sub specie aeternitatis

This is not misfortune, to bear this worthily is good fortune

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

All is well that ends well

Of all horrible religions, the most horrible is the worship of the god within.

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment.

All along the watchtower, princes kept a view

On the day they were to kill him, Santiago Nasar arose at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat carrying the bishop.

Never miss a good chance to shut up

Wealth is being content, greed is a curse

Being busy is wasting time

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have

Suspend judgment

..The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river Forever and ever

Leave it better than you found

Today is tomorrow of yesterday

You can always choose your way

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Success is to be free

C'est la vie

Let not future troubles you, for you will have the same reason

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin'

Action is the antidote to despair

So it begins

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

Let's take the backstreet though

O snail Climb Mount Fuji, But slowly, slowly!

Set aside your opinion, listen with a beginner's mind

California dreamin' On such a winter's day

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The best lack all conviction, while the worst, Are full of passionate intensity.

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see

In the white room with black curtains Near the station

Social skills naturally arise from genuine empathy

You make your habits, then your habits make you

Judge less, accept more

I don't need no arms around me And I don't need no drugs to calm me

Information isn't free, you pay for it with attention and focus

..The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..

The price of freedom is dear yet worths it

With every mistake, We must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps

Have little and gain much Have much and be confused

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry

Hands of a king are hands of a healer

How would you live if you had 2 years left? You may even have less time in reality.

Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

I don't know enough about this to have an opinion

When you get it, will you still want it?

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Neither blame yourself nor others

Nature doesn't hurry yet everything is accomplished

Hope itself is often better than what you are hoping for

Do nothing against your will, nor against the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy

Good is better than perfect

There is nothing new under the sun

There must be some kind of way outta here, Said the joker to the thief

Nature doesn't make long speeches

Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability

I have seen these trees innumerable times yet have I appreciated them?

Don't be so humble, you're not that great

Expect less, give more

Fear is the path to the dark side Fear leads to anger Anger leads to hate Hate leads to suffering.

What are the most important problems in your field, and why are you not working on them?

Give your mind some space

Past and future are only in your head

The pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits, and don't magnify them in your imagination.

I see my red door and I want it painted black

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Go take a walk

There is no reason not to follow your heart

Take the best and spread it around

How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand?

These violent delights have violent ends

What is better than freedom and love?

Enabling great good is also enabling great evil

You can choose a different path

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

People see/hear/think what they want

Old pond… a frog jumps in water's sound

Never memorize something you can look up

You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with

Come out better on the other side

Stay humble

A distracted mind can't successfully pursue any activity, since a distracted mind absorbs nothing deeply

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy in Anna Karenina

Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

Make it work but also make it beautiful

Cast aside fear and regret, do the deed at hand

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Do nothing in anger, take a walk

The world needs a wash and a week's rest.

We overvalue people we don't know and undervalue those we do.

Expect everything, there might be no tomorrow morning for you

It's a tiny drop of possible troubles all could go wrong yet only a few did

I pensieri stretti ed il viso sciolto

Know where to stop

古池や 蛙飛び込む 水の音

Have little and gain much Have much and be confused

What do you NOT want in life?

Life is so fragile. It's too easy to take good health for granted.

Walk no more in shadows

All could go wrong yet only a few did

The great way is low and plain, but people like shortcuts over the mountains.

A man's got to know his limitations

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

And you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'

It's not personal

It won't be as good as you hope, neither as bad as you fear

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of mind

Life is a celebration

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Truth has many faces

Neither blame yourself nor others

The future is not written yet It depends on what you do today.

Enjoy the sun

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved

Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Only with the heart one can see, what is essential is invisible to the eye

And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Take a walk

I look at the world And I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

Ride Ride for ruin And the world's ending

..silhouettes of strange illuminated mannequins

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there.

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Take a sad song and make it better

For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it - Henry David Thoreau

Oh well, whatever, never mind

Everybody gotta learn sometime

Life is what happens when you're not looking at a screen.

Comparison is the thief of joy

What would your best version do?

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Life is a great balancing act

Nothing in excess

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

..With all memory and fate, Driven deep beneath the waves

Be kind to yourself. If you won't, who will?

Each of us can heal

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemy of freedom

Genuine interest leads to success

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

To live till you die, is to live long enough

Outta order? I'll show you outta order!

Create more than you consume

Nothing in life matters quite as much as you think it does while you are thinking about it.

It's good to learn from your mistakes, even better to learn from the mistakes of others

Focus on what is in your control

Short cuts make long delays.

It's impossible No, it's necessary

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see

Things flourish then perish

You become what you give your attention to

And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'

Would your best version do this?

Was du erlebst, kann keine macht der Welt dir rauben.

Grinding your wheels won't solve your problem

Environment affects us more than we suspect

Expect less, appreciate more

Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise

Live as if you listen to music, or you play music

Treat people with kindness and respect, out of principle, even when they don't deserve it

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Do. Or do not. There is no try.

You must make a decision that you are going to move on.

Are you still young and dumb enough to know everything?

What happens to a dream deferred?

Sic vita est

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

If you know when to stop, you are in no danger

Exercise is a wonder drug

Lay your weary head to rest

The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated

Criticize less, appreciate more

The hour's getting late

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt!

Stupidity is not ignorance, it is using the wrong mental model

Judge less, accept more

Consider beginnings

Expect less, appreciate more

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Right words sound wrong

Mistakes of others are easier to notice than our own

You can have too much liberty, equality, or truth, yet not too much justice

Is this the most important thing you should work on?


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