Ideas
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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?