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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Expert
No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.
Seneca
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
Nassim Taleb
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
Nothing in this world is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Mastery is practice.
George Leonard
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
Jonas Salk, discovered one of the first successful polio vaccines
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be. We are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
Carl Sagan
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
Robert Pirsig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Marcus Aurelius
For me adventure is when everything goes wrong…that’s when the adventure starts.
Yvon Choinard, Patagonia Founder and CEO
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding…you can be yourself. Relaxed. You’ll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
Anthony De Mello
Each one of you is perfect as you are. And you all could use a little bit of improvement.
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Master
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
It’s not about perfection.
Eshin Godfrey, Zen Master, Zen Centre of Vancouver
You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Sir Edmund Hillary, first man to reach the top of Mount Everest
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Shopenhauer
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet
You’ll never change your life until you change something that you do daily. The secret to your success is found in your daily routine.
John C. Maxwell
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Worrying is a misuse of the imagination.
Steve Chandler
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
Birds are not better than the eggs from which they have broken…a bird is one egg’s way of becoming other eggs.
Alan Watts, “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Why You Are”
Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
What is the hardest thing of all? That which seems easiest for your eyes to see. That which lies before your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their full potential.
Bob Nardelli, CEO of Home Depot
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
I no more remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behind every impossible achievement is a dreamer of impossible dreams.
Robert K. Greenleaf
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire
We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.
Unknown
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Master
Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.
Robert M. Pirsig, from “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
Max Planck, Nobel Price winning physicist
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
If you cannot risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot become your best. If you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy. And if you cannot be happy, what else matters?
Dr. David Viscott
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi (Sufi poet and mystic)
In every moment of life you have a choice; to live the life of spiritual practice, or retreat into comfort and security.
Ezra Bayda
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Human excellence is a state of mind.
Socrates
Always be suspicious of the news you want to hear.
Francis Everitt, physicist
If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone.
Marcus Aurelius
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
Power is the ability to control the way others play; strength is the ability to allow others to play as they wish.
James P. Carse (from the book “Finite and Infinite Games”)
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckmeister Fuller
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I see I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
The most dangerous risk of all: The risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Allan W. Watts
Any valid inquiry begins with not-knowing, or else it merely serves to confirm what is already known.
Peter Ralston in “The Book of Not Knowing”
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Wisdom begins with wonder.
Socrates
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it.
Dr. Wilhelm Reich – Pioneering Scientist and Psychotherapist
The important thing is this: To be ready in every moment to sacrifice who we are for who we could become.
Charles Du Bos
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl in “Man’s Search For Meaning”
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
Bob Marley
The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.
Robert M. Pirsig
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
Max Planck, Nobel Price winning physicist
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard
We want to be poets of our life – first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Peter Drucker
I have known a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn’t so common.
Ouida
Know Thyself.
Inscribed in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
Aldous Huxley
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just isn’t so.
Unknown (but often attributed to Mark Twain)
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!
William Hutchison Murray, Scottish mountaineer
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Vernon Howard
Be the change you wish to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
What are you complicating right now?
Dave Robens, Men’s Group Vancouver
First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
True effectiveness requires balance.
Stephen R. Covey
It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus (Greek philosopher)
This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan W. Watts, Philosopher
I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see.
Sherlock Holmes
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Alan W. Watts
Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned – not to see what is not.
Maria Mitchell
You have capacities within you that are phenomenal, if you only knew how to release them.
David Bohm, legendary quantum physicist
That’s essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.
Charlotte Joko Beck, Zen Master
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There ain’t no way to find out why a snorer can’t hear himself snore.
Mark Twain
You cannot understand a system unless you change it.
Dr. Otto Scharmer
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.
Elvis Presley
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
