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
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
Michael Easter
If you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick every day.
Leonard Cohen via Tim Ferriss
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.
James Baldwin
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it.
Frank Herbert
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu via Peter Attia
Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry via Tim Ferriss
Spirituality that is expressed, is not spirituality.
Unknown Monk
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves...
Pablo Neruda
Perfection is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
Henri Matisse
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is wasted on the young.
Jimmy Chin via Outside Online
If you look for imperfection, you will find imperfection.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau via Tim Ferriss
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you... You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Anthony Bourdain
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
Il meglio è nemico del bene.
Orlando Pescetti
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Kurt Vonnegut
Being wrong isn't a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something.
Richard Feynman
The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.
Casey Neistat
Fear brings to pass what one is afraid of...
Viktor E. Frankl
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang-Tzu via Tim Ferriss
Opposition is a category of man's mind, not in itself an element of reality.
Erich Fromm
It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.
David Lynch
Happiness is a choice.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius via Darius Foroux
He that has never rid himself of desire can see only the outcomes.
Tao Te Ching
A goal without a plan is just a dream.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We can regret the past, but we can't change what has happened. We can anticipate the future, but we can't control it. All we have is this moment.
John Twelve Hawks
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Seneca via Tim Ferriss
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
Dalai Lama
The questions you ask about the world determine your success in the world.
Adam Robinson
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Josh Waitzkin
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran via Amanda Palmer
Those who know don't speak. Those who speak don't know.
Lao Tsu
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness, we learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk
If it's not a hell yes, it's a no.
Derek Sivers
The truth is only what we tell ourselves.
You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day – unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.
Zen Proverb
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and he has nothing left to hold onto: no illusions in his mind, no resistance in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.
Tao Te Ching
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
Try and see things the way they truly are, not the way you wish they were.
Naval Ravikant
It seems that a person who is comfortably settled in the bosom of society has fewer incentives to change the status quo.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When we search inside ourselves, we become more open to the ambiguities of life. And there, nestled among the chaos, is the birthplace of creativity.
Crew
Mono no aware (物の哀れ), literally translated as 'an empathy toward things', is a Japanese term for the awareness of the impermanence of things, and both a transient gentle sadness at their passing, and a longer, deeper sadness that this state of being is the reality of life.
Wikipedia via Paula Valentini
Empty handed we come
Empty handed we go
Yamamoto Tsunemoto
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
Shunryu Suzuki
Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.
Shane Parrish
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.
Richard Powell
To repair pottery with gold and silver is to not simply accept, but also value the fact that it needs repair in the first place, to embrace something's very brokenness.
Huckberry
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
We should not seek acceptance from others to validate our own identities. In high school, it was about fitting in; as a grown man, life is about being who you really want to be. When we become comfortable enough in our own skin, we stop trying to impress our friends, family and women. We become removed from the superficial and evolve into our own unique individual, our own man.
Jeffrey Albu
You have to love the path, you have to love the process, because if you're only concerned with success and failure then this whole experience is going to suck.
Johnathan Siegrist
Patience comes from a long–term view towards work, life and love.
John Maeda
Learn to love the fool
in you, the one who feels
too much, talks too much,
takes too many chances,
wins sometimes and loses
often, lacks self control.
loves and hates, hurts and
gets hurt, promises and
breaks promises, laughs
and cries.It alone protects you
against that utterly self-
controlled, masterful tyrant
whom you also harbor and
who would rob you of human
aliveness, humility, and
dignity but for your fool.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Every object of desire is a found object.
William Gibson
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
Carl Sagan
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
Discipline is your relationship with the time you have left.
Unknown
I always loved you, and if one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Sir Thomas Browne
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Stephen Hawking
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists...
Horiyoshi III
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Russell Kirsch
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.
Dieter Rams
When we reflect on what we are doing in our everyday life, we are always ashamed of ourselves. One of my students wrote to me saying, 'You sent me a calendar, and I am trying to follow the good mottoes which appear on each page. But the year has hardly begun, and already I have failed!' Dogen-zenji said 'Shoshaku jushaku'. Shaku generally means 'mistake' or 'wrong'. Shoshaku jushaku means 'to succeed wrong with wrong', or one continuous mistake. According to Dogen, one continuous mistake can also be Zen. A Zen master's life could be said to be so many years of shoshaku jushaku. This means so many years of one single-minded effort.
Shunryu Suzuki
Don't anticipate outcome
Await the unfolding of events
Remain in the moment
William Gibson
All grown-ups were children once – although few of them remember it.
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.
Rashi
When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear, one is broken before one begins to live.
Lao Tzu
You can be what ever type of person you choose to be. Your habits, your behaviours, your responses, are all your choice.
Unknown
The one who pursues a goal of even-mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss.
Paramahansa Yogananda
There's nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
Wang Hui-Ling
Because I didn't know it couldn't be done, I was enabled to do it.
Bill Atkinson
God is in the details.
Mies van de Rohe
There is no perfection, only life.
Milan Kundera
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.
Richard R. Powell
The only truths in this life are beauty and impermanence.
Unknown Shinto Monk
The journey is the reward.
Steve Jobs
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra
We don't get a chance to do that many things, so every one should be really excellent. Life is brief and then you die, you know? This is what we've chosen to do with our life. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
Steve Jobs
Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Constant activity prevents decay.
Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei
Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone.
Osho
Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening and sleep at night.
William Blake
You should work on stuff you love, so that you can't wait to do it, and taking a break is just a matter of enjoying something else (maybe a nice walk, a nice book, a nice conversation with a friend). Life where you work hard in bursts, with some breaks, is dreadful. Life where you're always doing something you love is art.
If someone already likes your photograph, how hard you worked doesn't matter. If they don't, telling them how hard you worked is not going to change their mind.
Ctein
There are three kinds of decisions. The first kind is a negative kind which makes life a desert. Then nothing blooms – it is a frustration, it is hell! The second kind of decision is the 'yes' decision, the daytime decision – life becomes a joy, a celebration. There is delight and one feels very happy to be: this is what heaven is, paradise. And the third is neither light nor darkness – one simply decides out of one's witnessing; out of all of the experiences of day and night together, one decides. That is the ultimate decision, that is what makes a man enlightened.
Osho
Stay hungry, stay foolish and don't settle.
Steve Jobs
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The truth knocks on the door and you say 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth' and so it goes away.
Robert Pirsig
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.
Daniel Burnham
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
Tim O'Reilly
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.
Frederick Sommer
The best place to start is often the place you least want to start.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Albert Camus
Creativity is unusual stuff: It frightens. It deranges. It's subversive. It mistrusts what it sees, what it hears. It dares to doubt. It acts even if it errs. It infiltrates preconceived notions. It rattles established certitudes. It incessantly invents new ways, new vocabularies. It provokes and changes points of view.
www.fabrica.it
The Sage is occupied with the unspoken
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.
Lao Tzu