“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
– Alfred Korzybski
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see that you’ve come unarmed.”
– Shakespeare
“You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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Think you can – Henry Ford
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
― Henry Ford
“Shyness/social awkwardness: an inability to be oneself stemming from a disbelief that other people might at heart be very much like us.”
– Alain de Botton
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Imperturbability – Unknown
Imperturbability – it’s the result of a peace that passes understanding. For serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
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On life – Arundhati Roy
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”
– Arundhati Roy
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Agere sequitur cruder (we act according to what we believe ourselves to be).”
– Latin saying
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
– Bertrand Russell
“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.”
– Mark Twain
“Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life’s critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.”
– Mardy Grothe
“There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.”
– Peter Brook