“You do not need to schedule your hours, you need to schedule your attention. It is your energy, not your time, that is limited each day.”— Brianna Wiest, twitter.com
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“According to Dr. Judith Orloff, the voice, words or images brought on by intuitive knowledge, are ‘neutral’, without much emotional charge. Also your intuition is your inner wisdom, your soul speaking to you. It will approach you with a ‘compassionate, affirming tone’. On the other hand, your fear w…”— Unknown, thespiritscience.net
“Human-as-machine analogies get shaky, but for the sake of all of this talk about ‘optimization’ let’s briefly forego all the weird dystopic sci-fi connotations and refer to ourselves as machines. We’ve got hardware — physical bodies. We’ve got software — psychological predispositions, subjective rea…”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“In fact, the most important change may be the toughest of all—and that’s changing ourselves.”— Barack Obama, glamour.com
“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”— Jean de La Fontaine, press.uillinois.edu
“Being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances.”— Julie K. Norem, goodreads.com
“The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.”— Malcom Gladwell, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes, but in the organization of them. Not in symbiosis, but in synthesis.”— Edwin Grant Conklin, amazon.comTagged: Structure
“Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity,precisely the time when you need strength. What best equips you to cope with the heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more…”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.”— Richie Norton, amazon.comTagged: Structure
“An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.”— Scott Belsky, amazon.comTagged: Structure