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“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
― Confucius

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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

“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
― C.G. Jung

“If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him”
― Linji

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.”
― Sophocles

“Quant'é bella giovinezza
Che si fugge tuttavia
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia;
Di doman non c'é certezza”
― Lorenzo de' Medici

“L'uovo ha una forma perfetta benché sia fatto col culo.”
― bruno munari

“When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. This is your utopia.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
― Carl Jung

“Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art