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Peace begins when expectation ends.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Said, done.
Done is better than perfect.
Learning.
Value is subjective.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Shoot.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The first step is the steepest.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Comfort vs. pain.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
More before better.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
You are here.
Distraction.
Talk is cheap.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
+2 vs. x2
Mindset vs. Mind set
Resistance lifts.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Alan Watts
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It took me years to play like myself.
Truth
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Switching costs.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Perspective.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Truth, Perception
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Each man believes only his experience.
Everyone, Someone.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
