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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“El miedo puede ser bueno, Laia. Puede mantenerte con vida. Pero no permitas que te controle. No permitas que siembre la duda en tu interior. Cuando el miedo tome el control, procura utilizar la única arma lo bastante poderosa e indestructible como para doblegarlo: tu espíritu. Tu corazón.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is “they will say roughly what they just said now,” then their words provided you with exactly zero information.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.”—Betty Reese”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . . . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“Life is not designed to hand us success or satisfaction, but rather to present us with challenges that make us grow.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“You have a lot less time than you think, and you’re not spending your time the way you think you are.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.” –Ingvar Kamprad”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges

“The purpose of practice is not to increase knowledge but to scrape the scales off the eyes, to pull the plugs out of the ears.”
― Soko Morinaga, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity

“This is in the highest degree the case with many of Goethe's and Byron's poems, which are obviously founded upon actual facts; where it is open to a foolish reader to envy the poet because so many delightful things happened to him, instead of envying that mighty power of phantasy which was capable of turning a fairly common experience into something so great and beautiful.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

“Spacetime grips mass, telling it how to move...
Mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve”
― John Wheeler

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.”
― Basho

“Plura sunt quae nos terrent, quam quae premunt; et saepius opinione quam re laboramus. * There are more things to alarm than to afflict us, and we suffer much oftener from the apprehension than from the reality. We are apt to be more frightened than hurt.”
― Claude Pavur, Latin Lights 1: Cicero & Seneca: Thoughts for School and for Life

“Potentissimus est qui se habet in potestate. * He is the most powerful who can govern himself.”
― Claude Pavur, Latin Lights 1: Cicero & Seneca: Thoughts for School and for Life

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers