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Alphabetical by author's last name
A
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."—Louisa May Alcott
"Realize the real problem is not what is happening, but how you are reacting to it."— Amma
B
"Artists are here to disturb the peace." - James Baldwin
"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn." —Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I call this the Paradox of Routines: The best routine is the one you can break.' —Sahil Bloom
"The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be 'more in the moment' is the mental discomfort of attempting to lift yourself up by your own bootstraps—to modify your relationship to the present moment in time, when in fact that moment in time is all that you are to begin with." —Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
C
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children." —Jimmy Carter, Dec. 2002 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
“Your outie can roller skate with grace.” —Ms. Casey to Mark S., Severance S2 E5
"Patience is a way to de-escalate aggression and its accompanying pain. This is to say that when we’re feeling aggressive—and I think this would go for any strong emotion—there’s a seductive quality that pulls us in the direction of wanting to get some resolution. We feel restless, agitated, ill at ease. It hurts so much to feel the aggression that we want it to be resolved. Right then we could change the way we look at this discomfort and practice patience." —Pema Chodron
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become." - James Clear, Atomic Habits
"Maybe the journey isn't about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place." - Paulo Coelho
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -- Marie Curie
D
“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.” — Simone de Beauvoir
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”— Simone de Beauvoir
"I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it." - Joan Didion
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.” — Annie Dillard
"There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it." - Bob Dylan
E
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
F
"When we cultivate the discipline to pause, it becomes possible for us to make a choice that is outside our normal habit pattern." -- Donna Farhi, Bringing Yoga to Life
"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again." - Henry Ford
"I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God!" — Pope Francis
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." -- Anne Frank
"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue." - Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
G
“You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” — Glinda the Good Witch, The Wizard of Oz
H
“Action absorbs anxiety.” - Dan Harris
“Much of our resistance to rest, sleep, and slowing down is an ego problem. You believe you can and must do it all because of our obsession with individualism and our disconnection to spirituality.” —Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance (18)
“The test of character is resilience.”— Kamala Harris, speech in Prince George’s County, Md.
"Change is only possible through movement."— Aldous Huxley
J
"What you deny subdues you. What you accept transforms you." — Carl Jung
K
"Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities." - The Dalai Lama
"You ultimately decide, every day, whether or not your life will speak on behalf of the oppressed, or remain an inaudible but decisive tool for the status quo." —Lisa Kemmerer
"In our times, it is radical to choose to sit still and be silent, to resist an identity of busyness, ceaseless motion, and noise, and to reclaim our sanity and humanity by coming home to ourselves." —Sumi Kim
“The villain is digital distraction. The fleeting ping of digital dopamine pleasure replaces our ability to sustain the attention necessary for deep relationship, deep learning, or deep work.” —Jim Kwik
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"Ain't with my type activities? Then don't you get involved." — Kendrick Lamar, “tv off”
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”— Lao Tzu
"Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy; Deal with the great while it is yet small." — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and it is an act of political warfare."-- Audre Lorde
M
“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”— Bob Marley
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single nap.” —McSweeney’s Proverbs for Introverts
"Authoritarian regimes, dictators, despots are often, but not always, fools. But none is foolish enough to give perceptive, dissident writers free range to publish their judgments or follow their creative instincts. They know they do so at their own peril. They are not stupid enough to abandon control (overt or insidious) over media." - Toni Morrison
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami
N
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”—Friedrich Nietzsche
O
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." —George Orwell
P
"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try". - Rosa Parks
“That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.” —Karl Pearson
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” —Sylvia Plath
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." - Plato
Q
"Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come." — Mario Quintana
R
"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Patience is also a form of action." - Auguste Rodin
S
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
"This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.” — Cheryl Strayed
“As the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it….” — Jonathan Swift
T
“A flower is a temporary manifestation created by interconnected, non-flower elements—like sunshine, rain, and soil—meaning the entire universe is present within it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this." —Henry David Thoreau
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.” — Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
"For fast acting relief, try slowing down." — Lily Tomlin
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"Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence."- Alan Watts
"It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are." - Marion Woodman