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Do what you think is right. Don't follow other people blindly. Be honest and keep your word. Admit your mistakes.
If you live your life authentically, keep your word, admit mistakes, and admit what you don’t know, you’ll find people will trust you more over time, and you’ll become wiser too.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. - Plato
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. -- Mark Twain
I’ve found you can choose to let all the things that go wrong in life depress you. Or, you can accept that things will go wrong, try to laugh, and then look at what you can do. There’s a Japanese proverb that gets right to the point: We’re fools whether we dance or not -- so we might as well dance.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It ain’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that just ain’t so.
Success in my experience requires the following elements: A clear, stretch goal. If the goal is too easy, it won’t feel like an achievement; if it’s unrealistic, you’ll never do the work. Love for what you’re doing. Very hard work, often over a long period of time. A sense of realism about the world, and your own limitations. As we used to say at Microsoft: you can't boil the ocean. Nor can you make people come back from the dead. Flexibility and perseverance -- you’ll need to adapt to the curve balls life will throw at you. …And, often, a bit of luck.
“You may delay, but time will not”.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
