If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things — that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment....
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” —Stephen Hawking
The stoic says the universe Is leagued to try the sage’s virtue. If evil smites you, look for worse, And if it hurts you, let it hurt you. Let Nature, with its crowd of woes, In vain endeavor to defeat us; Impassive, let us bear its blows Like Seneca and Epictetus. I met a stoic in a bar Who argued much for resignation. He pushed the stoic faith so far...
“To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference. —Marcus Aurelius
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” —John Muir
“There is no human being who may say that he has not failed, that he does not suffer, and that he will not die.” —Viktor Frankl
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” —Viktor Frankl
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.” —George Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines
“You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.” —Marcus Aurelius