“The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“I have always believed that the world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”— Sarah Michelle Gellar, instagram.com
“I appreciate the shit I have because I know what it’s like to have nothing.”— Quincy Jones, vulture.com
“My dad's been hard on me, my coaches have been hard on me, he's just like that extra father figure. When he relates to us like he expects more, we don't look at it in a negative way and say: 'You know what? I can't do it.' At least he has the confidence in us to say, 'You can do it.' We don't look a…”— Sean Taylor, great-quotes.com
“I’m trying my absolute hardest to see things from your perspective, but I just can’t get my head that far up my ass.”— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s not your responsibility to try to make the whole world happy. Especially since sometimes it’s not that easy to make yourself happy, either.”— KeSha, twitter.com
“Don’t beat yourself up for beating yourself up. We just need to learn to make friends with our inner critic.”— Dr. Kristin Neff, nytimes.com
“Trying to minimize taxes too much is one of the great standard cuases of really dumb mistakes.”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“We just look for no-brainer decisions. As Buffett and I say over and over again, we don't leap seven-foot fences.”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“An undertaker, of course, would look very unseemly if he were jumping up and down and playing his fiddle during the plague.”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“I sometimes tell my friends, "I'm doing the best I can. But I've never grown old before. I'm doing it for the first time. And I'm not sure that I'll do it right."”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“In essence, we are going into the business of creating and maintaing conditioned reflexes.”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“Academic psychology departments are immensely more important and useful than other academic departments think. And, at the same time, the psychology departments are immensely worse than most of their inhabitants think.”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along,when one doesn't come along very often. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“Remember Louis Vincenti's rule: Tell the truth, and you won't have to remember your lies. It's such a simple concept.”— Charles T. Munger, amazon.com
“I read everything: annual reports, 10K's, 10Q's, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes, I read the instructions on the backs of the seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time.”— Charles T. Munger, Warren Buffett, amazon.com
“Let’s stop saying, “Yung iba nga diyan eh.” (Other people have it worse). Be content with your life not because you see poverty & misery in other people. Find happiness within you & stop comparing your advantage or privilege over others. Do you really have to look at their flaws to feel better about…”— M.A. Buendía , twitter.com