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  • #1
    “Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.”
    Vagabond

  • #2
    Huang Po
    “Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
    Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

  • #3
    Bruce Lee
    “Not being tense but ready.
    Not thinking but not dreaming.
    Not being set but flexible.
    Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
    It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
    Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
    tags: zen

  • #4
    Bodhidharma
    “Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”
    Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

  • #5
    Zhuangzi
    “Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
    Zhuangzi

  • #6
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #7
    Nikola Tesla
    “I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #8
    Nikola Tesla
    “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #9
    Nikola Tesla
    “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #10
    Nikola Tesla
    “One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #11
    Nikola Tesla
    “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #12
    James Thurber
    “Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
    James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

  • #13
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #15
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #17
    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

  • #18
    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #19
    Harvey Fierstein
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
    Harvey Fierstein

  • #20
    Rita Mae Brown
    “About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”
    Rita Mae Brown

  • #21
    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
    Jim Morrison

  • #22
    “Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #23
    Tom Robbins
    “If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #24
    Oliver  James
    “Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for”
    Oliver James

  • #25
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”
    Leo Buscaglia

  • #26
    Gerard Way
    “Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
    Gerard Way

  • #27
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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