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“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Life is a struggle and the potential for failure is ever present, but those who live in fear of failure, or hardship, or embarrassment will never achieve their potential. Without pushing your limits, without occasionally sliding down the rope headfirst, without daring greatly, you will never know what is truly possible in your life.”
― William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

“Making my bed correctly was not going to be an opportunity for praise. It was expected of me. It was my first task of the day, and doing it right was important. It demonstrated my discipline. It showed my attention to detail, and at the end of the day it would be a reminder that I had done something well, something to be proud of, no matter how small the task.”
― William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

“You cannot paddle the boat alone. Find someone to share your life with. Make as many friends as possible, and never forget that your success depends on others.”
― William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

“If you want to change the world… be your very best in the darkest moments.”
― William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

“Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“The faculty of being acquainted with things other than itself is the main characteristic of a mind.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Multitasking is a lie”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“If you find yourself acting to impress others, or avoiding action out of fear of what they might think, you have left the path.”
― Epictetus, The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

“No one can steal your peace of mind unless you let them.”
― Epictetus, The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

“And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.”
― Epictetus, The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

“Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.”
― Epictetus, The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life

“If you meet temptation, use self-control; if you meet pain, use fortitude; if you meet revulsion, use patience.”
― Epictetus, The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life