You just want to open the space around it
so that you can expand your vision to see things just as they are.”
– Kyodo Williams
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No one – Alain De Botton
“No one is as strong as they seem – or as daunting as we fear.”
– Alain De Botton
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Social media – Ryan Holiday
“Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more ‘Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.’ It’s rarely the truth: ‘I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.’”
– Ryan Holiday
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Real love moves freely – Cheryl Strayed
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
– Cheryl Strayed
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Self-criticism – Alain De Botton
“We have taken self-criticism too far when it no longer has any effect on our level of achievement, when it simply saps our morale and our will to get out of bed.”
– Alain De Botton
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Stars in my eyes – Taylor from Ohio
“I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.”
– Taylor from Ohio
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Elevates the soul – Gustave Flaubert
“Doesn’t it seem to you, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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Heroes – Roger Moore
“I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.”
– Roger Moore
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Understand something – Upton Sinclair
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
– Upton Sinclair
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Your best – Unknown
“You never hear about the 100 other people who gave up everything for their goal but failed. Your best is sometimes just not enough.”
– Unknown
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Life – Jean-Luc Picard
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
– Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)
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Duality – Unknown
“Duality is a part of life. The sun sets and the sun rises. We inhale and we exhale. We must create and we must rest. Don’t expect to be productive everyday, but don’t be lazy either.”
– Unknown
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Rain – H. Wadsworth Longfellow
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is, let it rain.”
– H. Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bad guy – Unknown
“Sometimes you are the bad guy.”
– Unknown
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Three little words
“Three little words that broke my heart. She. Chose. Him.”