“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
– Schopenhauer
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Rule your mind – Unknown
“Rule your mind, or it will rule you”
– Unknown
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Work-life balance – Alain de Botton
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
– Alain de Botton
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Creative impulses – Bertrand Russell
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.”
– Bertrand Russell
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Aliens – Loco Eric
“It’s weird how secretive aliens are and yet they’re still too lazy to shut off the blinking lights on their UFO.”
– Loco Eric
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Fail big or win big – Sylvester Stallone
“I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.”
– Sylvester Stallone
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Beauty – David Hume
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
– David Hume
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Respect – Unknown
“The way you do things is not the only way to do them. Respect other peoples ways of thinking.”
– Unknown
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Strengthen – Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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Mistakes – Unknown
“There comes a time when you have to stop remembering your mistakes and just move on.”
– Unknown
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Indifferent – Soren Kierkegaard
“Besides all its other good qualities, the good, the truly great and noble, has the quality of not allowing the observer to be indifferent.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Significant – Soren Kierkegaard
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Loss – Unknown
“Not everyone you lose is a loss”
– Unknown
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Silence – Unknown
“Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness”
– Unknown
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Eccentric – Bertrand Russell
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
– Bertrand Russell