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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
― Jim Rohn

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“by experiencing our hopes, we lose them. We see that our beautiful visions for a perfect future are not so perfect, that our dreams and aspirations are themselves riddled with unexpected flaws and unforeseen sacrifices. Because the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire

“If failure is not an option, then neither is success.”
― Seth Godin

“An anxious mind cannot exist in a relaxed body.” Body and mind are inextricably related in anxiety.”
― Edmund J. Bourne, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

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

“Happiness comes from solving problems. [...] Happiness is a constant work-in-progress. The solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”
― John Allen Paulos

“Being afraid is the worst sin there is.”
― Jean-Paul Belmondo

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
― Voltaire

“Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.”
― Dōgen

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

“Another day, another staff meeting. Who would have thought saving the world could be so boring?”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. —Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997”
― Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

“This original version of Coca-Cola contained a small amount of coca extract and therefore a trace of cocaine. (It was eliminated early in the twentieth century, though other extracts derived from coca leaves remain part of the drink to this day.) Its creation was not the accidental concoction of an amateur experimenting in his garden, but the deliberate and painstaking culmination of months of work by an experienced maker of quack remedies.”
― Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

“The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World