101 Quotes That Will Help You Build Emotional Resilience

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Happiness is as much a product of sensory enjoyment as it is discipline and purpose. 

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, Psychology

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy

“If you’re an artist there are always new modes of expression, new things to create and communicate. The world isn’t fixed, it’s always changing, so that means you have to create anew in light of the changes... I don’t think any good scientist thinks one day science will come to an end. Science is ab…”

— Olivia Goldhill, qz.com

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“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

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“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

— Thomas Love Peacock, amazon.com

Tagged: The Person You'll Become, The Art of Awareness, Love, Philosophy, How To Think

“We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a holy and superstitious fear. Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo h…”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

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“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”

— Eric Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: The Person You'll Become, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, Love

“We always vilify what we don't understand.”

— Nenia Campbell, amazon.com

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“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after a…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

— Yann Martel, amazon.com

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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Love, Philosophy

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness

“Yes, awe arises during the extraordinary: when viewing the Grand Canyon, touching the hand of a rock star like Iggy Pop, or experiencing the sacred during meditation or prayer. More frequently, though, people report feeling awe in response to more mundane things: when seeing the leaves of a Gingko t…”

— Dacher Keltner, fulfillmentdaily.com

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“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness