Author: SS

My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).

"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman

Suffering and recovery – Christian Barnard

“Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.”
 
– Christian Barnard
 

Tension and relaxation – Uknown

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
 
– Unknown
 

Time – Benjamin Franklin

“You may delay, but time will not.”
 
Benjamin Franklin
 

Your thoughts, your life – Marcus Aurelius

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
 
– Marcus Aurelius
 

Where you need to be – Douglas Adams

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
 
– Douglas Adams
 

Go with all your heart – Confucius

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
 
– Confucius
 

Life and fear – Katharine B. Hathaway

“If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
 
– Katharine B. Hathaway
 

Validation – Chris Rock

“You only live once, so don’t forget to spend 15 hours every day on the internet, desperately searching for the validation of strangers.”
 
– Chris Rock
 

Change – Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
 
– Rumi
 

You are the world – Bill Wilson

“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”
 
― Bill Wilson
 

Life, Pain, Joy – Milton H. Erickson

“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
 
– Milton H. Erickson
 

Categories
Quotes

Fact, opinion, perspective – Marcus Aurelius

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
 
– Marcus Aurelius
 

Time – Richard Carlson

“Ask yourself this question: ‘will this matter in a year from now’?”
 
– Richard Carlson
 

Character and choice – Aristotle

“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”
 
– Aristotle
 

Relationships and Algebra – Chris Rock

“Relationships are a lot like Algebra class in high school. Have you ever looked at your X and wondered Y?”
 
– Chris Rock