Latest Quotes

“I find it tasteless to be familiar.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”

— E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

“More moving. Less complaining. More creating. Less scrolling. More documenting. Less spending.”

— Anonymous, Rules

“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduce…”

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Philosophy, as I have understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains: a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has been excommunicated by morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I am So Wise (Penguin Great Ideas)

“You'll never change your life until you change something you do each day. The secret to success is in daily routine.”

— Anonymous, Routine

“Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you’ll continue to be art even when he’s gone. A masterpiece is still a masterpiece even when the lights are off and the room is empty.”

— Charlotte Geier, Elfwood

“Close your eyes and picture the sun. That's what it felt like to love her: warmth.”

— Atticus, Warmth

“You work on yourself and you hope for the best, but you only get better — you don’t get perfect.”

— Chrissy Stockton, I Never Thought That I Would Have To Ask Someone To Love Me While I Was Still So Unloveable

“And all along, I knew I had something special with you, but sometimes you just gotta know that these things fall through, but I'm still tired and I can't hide my connection with you.”

— ZARA LARSSON, Never Forget You

“I'm afraid that something will reveal itself once we’ve exchanged our vows, and suddenly my life will be worse than when I was alone.”

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

“I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.”

— William Burroughs, The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959

“While saying goodbye does mean accepting that a part of our life is now over, it also provides us with a chance to realize just how blessed our lives have been.To look back and reflect on the journeys we’ve shared with some wonderful people, while being exposed to amazing and invaluable experiences…”

— Craig James Ruvere, If It’s Hard to Say Goodbye, Your Life’s Been Truly Blessed

“People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.”

— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“There is just as much value in the negative space. Not every second of your life has to be filled. A packed agenda is not success. Living to work as opposed to working to live is not a quality of life. Things are not split into ‘times in which you’re doing something that other people can quantify’ a…”

— Brianna Wiest, How To Become The Kind Of Person Who Deserves The Life You Want

“Here's a list of things to remember: Time heals. Mountain winds sound exactly like ocean waves. You are worth everything now. Walls can be destroyed. The sun always rises (and is always beautiful). Children know the answers. Trees can grow through rock. There is music in everything – like rain on ci…”

— Victoria Erickson, A Sweet List Of Things To Remember

“Pro tip: shorten your to-do list by rendering it in a smaller font.”

— Christopher Mims, Status Update

“The biggest elephant in the room is Uber, valued at $62.5 billion. The company claims it is profitable by some measures in North America, but it is spending huge amounts of money to capture markets in China and elsewhere.If the world’s most valuable startup must curtail its ambitions, it would send…”

— Christopher Mims, This Tech Bubble Is Bursting

“The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history. Hundreds of millions of people are, each minute, creating and consuming an untold amount of digital content in an online world that is not truly bound by terrestrial laws.”

— Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

“The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality.”

— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art