Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“Trade within your emotional capacity or you’ll get out on meaningless corrections and lose on trades that would have won.”
“Visualize victory a thousand times in your mind; show up on the night to experience the replay.”
“An idea can turn to dust or magic,
depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”
“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”
“You think it’s cool to hate things. And it’s not. It’s boring. Talk about what you love and keep quiet about the things that you don’t.”
“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of ‘living a lie’. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.”
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
“You have to be very decisive, extremely disciplined, relatively smart, and above all, totally independent.”
“Drop the toxic friends. They’re anchors weighing you down. Find positive friends instead. They’ll inspire you and lift you up all the time.”
“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”
“Never stop being teachable. If you think you know everything, you will never learn anything”
““Discipline” is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you’re wrong. But self-discipline is different. It’s the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret. They have no power over you. It’s all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won’t do it.
But look within and watch the stuff coming up - restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain - just watch it come up and don’t get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.
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“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete but lets be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul, but as cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
“Pain, when pushed and endured long enough, brings to the surface the uninhibited, raw soul of a human being. Only then are we healed from suffering because we’ve experienced it in full.”