May > May's Quotes

“So, it seems to me, that before we set out on a journey to find reality, to find God, before we can act, before we can have any relationship with another, which is society, surely it is essential that we begin to understand ourselves first.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Người ta thường tưởng: Hễ là một bực thông thái, thì không thể suy nghĩ lầm lẫn được nữa. Tin tưởng như thế là lầm. Một kẻ thường nhơn mà ít dục vọng, lương tri họ còn sáng tỏ hơn một bực thiên tài mà bên trong đầy ham muốn.”
― Nguyễn Duy Cần

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A test score? A dishonest or callous action? Being fired from a job? Being rejected? Focus on that thing. Feel all the emotions that go with it. Now put it in a growth-mindset perspective. Look honestly at your role in it, but understand that it doesn’t define your intelligence or personality. Instead, ask: What did I (or can I ) learn from that experience? How can I use it as a basis for growth? Carry that with you instead.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Nines must resist the urge to escape into “premature Buddhahood”... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.”
― Don Richard Riso, The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

“The body is extremely important for Inner Work, because it is a reliable reality check in ways that our minds and emotions (the other two centers) cannot be. This is because, as we mentioned earlier, the body is always here, in the present moment. Our minds or feelings can be anyplace - imagining the future, dwelling on the past, or ruminating on a fantasy - but our body is always here and now. It cannot be anywhere else. Therefore, if we are aware of the sensations of our bodies, it is a solid piece of evidence that we are present.”
― Don Richard Riso, The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently”
― Tony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“A favorite Sufi poem, attributed to Hazrat Inayat Khan, offers a helpful perspective: I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love and God gave me people to help. I asked for favours and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.”
― Lynne Twist, The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

“Người ta cứ tưởng rằng phải biết lựa chọn hướng đi, rồi phải thành công, thì sau đó mới tìm ra hạnh phúc. Nào ngờ phải nghĩ ngược hẳn lại - cứ đi theo những ý thích thầm kín nhất của mình, cứ hướng theo ánh sáng của sự thèm khát nhất từ bên trong, và bám chặt lấy cái ám ảnh tích cực đó rồi mới tìm ra hướng đi. Nói nôm na, có sướng thì mới đi chứ đừng đi để mần mò tìm cái sướng.
Thành thử lộ trình đúng không phải là thành công tạo ra hạnh phúc, mà chính hạnh phúc mới tạo ra thành công! Hướng đi không nhất thiết đưa tới hạnh phúc mà chính niềm hạnh phúc mới chỉ đường cho chúng ta đi.
Cả một cuộc đời để tìm ra chân lý đó, mà mọi sinh vật khác chúng ta, trong cả vũ trụ rộng lớn này, đều hiểu từ ngay lúc mới lọt lòng!”
― Phan Văn Trường, Một đời như kẻ tìm đường

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The challenge of writing
Is to see your horribleness on the page
To see your terribleness
And then go to bed.
And wake up the next day
And take that horribleness and terribleness,
And refine it,
And make it not so terrible and not so horrible.
And then to go to bed again.
And come the next day,
And refine it a little bit more,
And make it not so bad.
And then to go to bed again.
And do it again the next day,
And make it maybe average,
And then one more time,
If you’re lucky,
Maybe you get to good,
And if you’ve done that,
That’s a success.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“I thought I’d solved a problem when really I was creating new ones by taking the path of least resistance.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“By the time I graduated, I knew that the confidence I’d managed to develop didn’t come from a perfect family or God-given talent. It came from personal accountability which brought me self respect, and self respect will always light a way forward.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“If you’re somebody when you’re successful, what are you when you’re unsuccessful?”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“We're quick to blame ourselves for lack of progress, but slow to blame our strategies. Then we repeat them over and over again, trying to make them work. But here's the thing—if you fail using a particular strategy more than a few times, you need to try another one. It doesn't matter if it works for everyone else if it doesn't work for you! This is a lesson I wish I had learned years ago.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“When you repeat a behavior over time, your brain learns to automate the process. It's more energy efficient to automatically do something than to manually weigh your options and decide to act the same way every time. When you make a decision very quickly, it is probably from habit, even if you think you're actively deciding. In a way, you made the decision a while ago.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“The basal ganglia doesn't care to “defend” against small steps, only drastic changes. By changing slowly and taking it one step at a time, you're playing by your own brain's rules.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Darkness is not something that exists on its own—it's the name we give for the absence of light. Perhaps people have bad habits because they lack the light of good habits, which permits a dark void in their life. When you add good habits into your life, it illuminates another possible path, restores your confidence, and gives you hope. It also serves as a brilliant foundation from which to build.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success