Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Average people would rather be entertained than educated. Rich people would rather be educated than entertained.
-While the rich don’t put much stock in furthering wealth through formal education, they appreciate the power of learning long after college is over, Siebold says.
-“Walk into a wealthy person’s home and one of the first things you’ll see is an extensive library of books they’ve used to educate themselves on how to become more successful,” he writes.
-“The middle class reads novels, tabloids and entertainment magazines."
“Our perception is reality and it forms our decisions and attitude each day…so don’t look at your environment and this world around you with your eyes or the eyes of another…look through your heart instead and you will be amazed how things will change around you for the better”
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.”
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
“Everything we run away from has power over us; everything we go through, we conquer.”
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward—that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”
“It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one’s own, to be used.”
“Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.”
“When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
“Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.”
“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the Victory.”
“Most men make the error of thinking that one day it will be done. They think, “If I can work enough, then one day I could rest.” Or, “One day my woman will understand something and then she will stop complaining.” Or, “I’m only doing this now so that one day I can do what I really want with my life.” The masculine error is to think that eventually things will be different in some fundamental way. They won’t. It never ends. As long as life continues, the creative challenge is to tussle, play, and make love with the present moment while giving your unique gift.”