“People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.”
– Hellen Keller
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Succeed – Hellen Keller
“Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives… It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.”
– Hellen Keller
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Joy – Hellen Keller
“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”
– Hellen Keller
Emotions people feel, but can’t explain:
Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
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Remember – Douglas Coupland
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”
– Douglas Coupland
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Comfort – John Churton Collins
“If we knew each other’s secrets, what comfort we would find.”
– John Churton Collins
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Thrive – Maya Angelou
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
– Maya Angelou
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Freedom – J. Robert Oppenheimer
“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Be careful – David McCourt
“Effort follows attention and results follow effort. So be careful what you think about.”
– David McCourt
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Happiness – Philip Schultz
“Success, failure are almost artificial. People fall into the way of thinking that there’s one or the other, it’s black or white, that there’s no in between. Of course, we all live in between. Happiness, is in between.”
– Philip Schultz
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Language – Penelope Lively
“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
– Penelope Lively
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Skeptical – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Great intellects are skeptical.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perceive – David Hume
“To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.”
– David Hume
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Truths – Galileo Galilei
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
– Galileo Galilei