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The next forty years of habits decide when, and how. https://humanconcepts.in/bhagavad-gita https://humanconcepts.in/og/bhagavad-gita The Bhagavad Gita A practical wisdom guide — Krishna's answer to Arjuna's paralysis, made livable for now. https://humanconcepts.in/flow-state https://humanconcepts.in/og/flow-state Flow State The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing — and being more yourself than ever, at the same time. https://humanconcepts.in/48-laws-of-power https://humanconcepts.in/og/48-laws-of-power The 48 Laws of Power A literacy of power — read it to recognise the game whether you want to play it or not. https://humanconcepts.in/hygge https://humanconcepts.in/og/hygge Hygge The Danish art of cozy contentment — warmth, presence, and finding enough in small things. https://humanconcepts.in/relationships https://humanconcepts.in/og/relationships Relationships The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live. https://humanconcepts.in/wabi-sabi https://humanconcepts.in/og/wabi-sabi Wabi-Sabi The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things. https://humanconcepts.in/tao https://humanconcepts.in/og/tao The Tao The way of effortless action — when to stop pushing, when to begin. https://humanconcepts.in/saying-no https://humanconcepts.in/og/saying-no The Power of No Saying no, setting boundaries, and ending the silent losses of people-pleasing. https://humanconcepts.in/fear https://humanconcepts.in/og/fear Fear Almost every adult is constrained by two or three fears they have never written down. This page is the writing-down. https://humanconcepts.in/tonglen https://humanconcepts.in/og/tonglen Tonglen The Tibetan practice of breathing in suffering, and breathing out relief — and the wider mind-training that grew around it. https://humanconcepts.in/sisu https://humanconcepts.in/og/sisu Sisu The Finnish word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone. https://humanconcepts.in/ubuntu https://humanconcepts.in/og/ubuntu Ubuntu Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. A person is a person through other people. The Southern African answer to the Western question. https://humanconcepts.in/sufism https://humanconcepts.in/og/sufism Sufism The Persian path of the heart — where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self. https://humanconcepts.in/ho-oponopono https://humanconcepts.in/og/ho-oponopono Hoʻoponopono The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory — four phrases that repair what is broken inside. https://humanconcepts.in/maat https://humanconcepts.in/og/maat Maat The 5,000-year-old Egyptian principle of truth, order, balance — and the 42 Negative Confessions the heart was weighed against. https://humanconcepts.in/mental-toughness https://humanconcepts.in/og/mental-toughness Mental Toughness Become the forged version of yourself. The 40% Rule. The Accountability Mirror. The Cookie Jar. The Suck Index. The Box. https://humanconcepts.in/burnout https://humanconcepts.in/og/burnout Burnout Recovery from the modern plague — the WHO-recognised condition, the clinical instrument that diagnoses it, and the protocols that actually work. https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/1.svg The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative w Robert Greene — Mastery · 2012 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/2.svg Never outshine the master. Always make those above you feel comfortably superior Robert Greene — The 48 Laws of Power · Law 1 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/3.svg The keenest sting to one's pride is the consciousness that someone else has read Robert Greene — The 48 Laws of Power · Law 3 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/4.svg Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the mor Robert Greene — The 48 Laws of Power · Law 4 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/5.svg Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimid Robert Greene — The 48 Laws of Power · Law 5 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/6.svg The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu — The Art of War · c. 500 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/7.svg All warfare is based on deception. Sun Tzu — The Art of War · c. 500 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/8.svg To know your enemy, you must become your enemy. Sun Tzu — The Art of War · c. 500 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/9.svg He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche — Twilight of the Idols · 1889 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/10.svg It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince · 1532 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/11.svg Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch. Ever Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince · 1532 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/12.svg A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince · 1532 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/13.svg Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. François de La Rochefoucauld — Maxims · 1665 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/14.svg The intellect is always fooled by the heart. François de La Rochefoucauld — Maxims · 1665 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/15.svg We pardon to the extent that we love. François de La Rochefoucauld — Maxims · 1665 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/16.svg Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best. Otto von Bismarck — attributed · 1867 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/17.svg Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the r Otto von Bismarck — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/18.svg A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Benjamin Franklin — Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One · 1773 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/19.svg Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don Ronald Reagan — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/20.svg When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. Talleyrand — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/21.svg Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. Talleyrand — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/22.svg The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen — An Enemy of the People · 1882 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/23.svg Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton — letter to Bishop Creighton · 1887 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/24.svg A man's character is his fate. Heraclitus — attributed · c. 500 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/25.svg The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolò Machiavelli — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/26.svg In victory, you deserve champagne. In defeat, you need it. Napoleon Bonaparte — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/27.svg Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/28.svg There are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies — only permanent interests. Lord Palmerston — speech to the House of Commons · 1848 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/29.svg Read the book. Then close it. Then read the world. The book is a map; the world distilled maxim — on power literacy https://humanconcepts.in/quote/48-laws-of-power/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/48-laws-of-power/30.svg Knowing the law is a defence. Using the law is a choice. distilled maxim — on the 48 laws https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/1.svg Your right is to the work itself, never to its fruits. Do not let the fruits of Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 2.47 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/2.svg The soul is never born, nor does it die. Unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 2.20 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/3.svg As a person sheds worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so does the embodied se Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 2.22 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/4.svg Established in yoga, perform action, having abandoned attachment. Evenness of mi Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 2.48 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/5.svg He whose mind is undisturbed in sorrow, who craves no pleasure, and from whom at Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 2.56 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/6.svg When a person dwells on the objects of the senses, attachment to them is born. F Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 2.62 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/7.svg No one can remain even for a moment without performing action. Everyone is helpl Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 3.5 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/8.svg Whatever a great person does, others follow. Whatever standard they set, the wor Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 3.21 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/9.svg Better one's own dharma, even imperfectly performed, than the dharma of another Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 3.35 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/10.svg Whenever there is decline of dharma and rise of adharma, then I manifest myself. Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 4.7 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/11.svg For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and to re-est Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 4.8 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/12.svg Lift yourself by yourself; do not let yourself sink. For the self alone is the f Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 6.5 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/13.svg Without doubt, the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be cont Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 6.35 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/14.svg Whoever offers me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water — that, the Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 9.26 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/15.svg To those who worship me, thinking of no other, ever steadfast, I bring what they Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 9.22 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/16.svg Three are the gates of hell, destructive of the self — lust, anger, and greed. T Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 16.21 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/17.svg Abandoning all duties, take refuge in me alone. I will liberate you from all sin Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 18.66 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/18.svg Reflect on this fully and then do as you wish. Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 18.63 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/19.svg Wherever there is Krishna, the lord of yoga, and wherever there is Arjuna, the w Sanjaya — Bhagavad Gita 18.78 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/20.svg The Gita teaches us how the work of the world can be made the means of liberatio Swami Vivekananda — Karma Yoga · 1896 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/21.svg The Gita is the philosophy of the householder, the world-engaged person — not th Swami Vivekananda — lectures on the Gita https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/22.svg All the Gita is the divine speaking the divine wisdom into the human consciousne Sri Aurobindo — Essays on the Gita · 1922 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/23.svg When doubt haunts me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not o Mahatma Gandhi — preface to his Gujarati translation of the Gita · 1929 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/24.svg The Gita is not a sectarian work. It belongs to all humanity. It teaches the rel Mahatma Gandhi — Anasaktiyoga · 1930 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/25.svg The Gita is for action — for action without attachment, in the world, by anyone, Bal Gangadhar Tilak — Gita Rahasya · 1915 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/26.svg The Gita does not require us to give up the world; it requires us to give up the Eknath Easwaran — The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living · 1975 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/27.svg The Gita is a love letter from God to humanity, written in the language of dilem distilled maxim — on the Gita https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/28.svg To do your work without grasping for its fruit is not weakness. It is the highes distilled maxim — on nishkama karma https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/29.svg The whole Gita is contained in two verses — 2.47 and 18.66. The first is how to distilled maxim — on the Gita https://humanconcepts.in/quote/bhagavad-gita/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/bhagavad-gita/30.svg The Gita does not give Arjuna an answer. It gives him the means to find his own. distilled maxim — on the Gita https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/1.svg Burnout is not just being tired. It is the chronic erosion of the self caused by Christina Maslach — The Maslach Burnout Inventory · 1981 · with Susan E. Jackson https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/2.svg The cure for burnout is not self-care. The cure is care that comes from outside Christina Maslach — The Truth About Burnout · 1997 · with Michael Leiter https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/3.svg We have spent forty years studying burnout. The data is clear: burnout is a sign Christina Maslach — interview · UC Berkeley · 2019 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/4.svg The stressor is not the same as the stress. You can deal with the stressor and s Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski — Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle · 2019 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/5.svg The single most efficient way to complete the stress cycle is twenty to sixty mi Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski — Burnout · 2019 · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/6.svg Human Giver Syndrome is the unwritten contract that some people exist to give th Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski — Burnout · 2019 · the Human Giver Syndrome https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/7.svg Slow productivity: do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality. Cal Newport — Slow Productivity · 2024 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/8.svg The to-do list is a productivity disaster. It scales to infinity; your attention Cal Newport — Slow Productivity · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/9.svg Pseudo-productivity — measuring effort by visible activity — was a convenient fi Cal Newport — Slow Productivity · 2024 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/10.svg Millennial burnout is not a problem of bad work-life balance. It is the lived co Anne Helen Petersen — Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/11.svg You cannot self-care your way out of a system that was built to extract every la Anne Helen Petersen — Can't Even · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/12.svg Sleep is the foundation, not the optional. There is no app, no supplement, no pr Matthew Walker — Why We Sleep · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/13.svg Sleep loss is one of the most underappreciated public health crises. We are in t Matthew Walker — Why We Sleep · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/14.svg We are not designed to be on all the time. The fact that we can be on all the ti Tony Schwartz — The Way We're Working Isn't Working · 2010 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/15.svg Manage energy, not time. Four wells: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. Eac Tony Schwartz — The Power of Full Engagement · 2003 · with Jim Loehr https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/16.svg We sleep less than any generation in history and we are sicker, more depressed, Arianna Huffington — The Sleep Revolution · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/17.svg I collapsed at my desk. I broke my cheekbone. I had been working ninety-hour wee Arianna Huffington — Thrive · 2014 · the founding story https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/18.svg Time poverty is the new poverty. We have more material wealth and less time than Brigid Schulte — Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/19.svg The leisure gap — between what we have and what we feel we have — is a real meas Brigid Schulte — Overwhelmed · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/20.svg You have 168 hours in a week. Everyone has 168. Track them honestly for a week a Laura Vanderkam — 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think · 2010 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/21.svg The mythical 80-hour workweek does not exist. Time-use studies of self-reported Laura Vanderkam — 168 Hours · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/22.svg Burnout was added to the WHO's International Classification of Diseases in 2019. World Health Organisation — ICD-11 · QD85 · 2019 ratification https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/23.svg The opposite of work is not rest. The opposite of work is play. Rest restores; p Stuart Brown — Play: How It Shapes the Brain · 2009 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/24.svg A friend asked me what I do for fun. I could not answer. I had not done anything attributed — modern burnout narrative · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/25.svg Rest is not the reward for finishing the work. Rest is the foundation the work i Tricia Hersey — Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto · 2022 · The Nap Ministry https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/26.svg Grind culture is a lie. Productivity is not your worth. You are not a machine. Y Tricia Hersey — Rest Is Resistance · 2022 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/27.svg The first sign of burnout is not exhaustion. It is the inability to feel anythin paraphrased Maslach — modern clinical synthesis https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/28.svg You can keep going for years on willpower and caffeine. The body keeps the score paraphrased Bessel van der Kolk — The Body Keeps the Score · 2014 · adapted to burnout https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/29.svg There is a difference between being tired and being broken. Tired is fixed by a modern attributed — oral · burnout recovery community https://humanconcepts.in/quote/burnout/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/burnout/30.svg The day you ask for help is not the day you became weak. It is the day you stopp modern attributed — recovery wisdom · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/1.svg You have the right to action, but never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of act Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 2.47 · ~500 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/2.svg It is better to do your own duty badly than to do another's duty well. Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 18.47 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/3.svg A man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 17.3 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/4.svg Whatever happened, happened for the good. Whatever is happening, is happening fo Krishna — Bhagavad Gita · paraphrase https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/5.svg The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice. Krishna — Bhagavad Gita 6.35 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/6.svg All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The Buddha — Dhammapada 1.1 · ~400 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/7.svg You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and a The Buddha — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/8.svg Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. The Buddha — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/9.svg Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. The Buddha — Dhammapada 1.5 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/10.svg Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. Patanjali — Yoga Sutras 1.2 · ~200 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/11.svg When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds Patanjali — Yoga Sutras · interpretive translation https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/12.svg Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached. Swami Vivekananda — Lectures · 1893 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/13.svg You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/14.svg In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. Swami Vivekananda — Letters https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/15.svg All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is Swami Vivekananda — Karma Yoga · 1896 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/16.svg Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/17.svg The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi — Young India · 1925 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/18.svg Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will Mahatma Gandhi — Autobiography https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/19.svg Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/20.svg Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso — attributed (Eastern resonance) https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/21.svg Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein — Letter to Eduard, 1930 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/22.svg All life is yoga. Sri Aurobindo — The Synthesis of Yoga · 1914 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/23.svg By your stumbling, the world is perfected. Sri Aurobindo — Thoughts and Aphorisms https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/24.svg Everything is perfect, but there is plenty of room for improvement. Shunryu Suzuki — Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind · 1970 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/25.svg You are not the body. You are the awareness in which the body appears. Ramana Maharshi — Talks · ~1935 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/26.svg Silence is the true upadesha. It is the perfect upadesha. Ramana Maharshi — Talks https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/27.svg Where the mind goes, the man follows. Ramana Maharshi — Talks https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/28.svg The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry — attributed (echoes of nishkama karma) https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/29.svg If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears Henry David Thoreau — Walden · 1854 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/dharma/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/dharma/30.svg The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates — via Plato (Western echo) https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/1.svg I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings t Frank Herbert — Dune · 1965 · the Litany Against Fear https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/2.svg You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will f Marcus Aurelius — Meditations · ~170 CE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/3.svg If it is endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations · Book V https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/4.svg It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to li Marcus Aurelius — Meditations · attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/5.svg We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Seneca — Letters from a Stoic · ~65 CE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/6.svg He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive. Seneca — Moral Letters · Letter XXIV https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/7.svg Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. P Seneca (attributed) — Roman philosopher https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/8.svg Define your fears, instead of your goals. The hard choices — what we most fear d Tim Ferriss — TED · 2017 · Fear-Setting https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/9.svg Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life. Most people get this backwards Tim Ferriss — The 4-Hour Workweek · 2007 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/10.svg A persons success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable Tim Ferriss — The 4-Hour Workweek https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/11.svg When you want to quit, you are only forty percent done. David Goggins — Cant Hurt Me · 2018 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/12.svg The most important conversations you will ever have are the ones you have with y David Goggins — Cant Hurt Me https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/13.svg You have to build calluses on your mind, just like you would on your hands. David Goggins — Cant Hurt Me https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/14.svg What would you do if you werent afraid? Sheryl Sandberg — Lean In · 2013 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/15.svg Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg — Lean In https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/16.svg I want every little girl whos told shes bossy to be told instead, she has leader Sheryl Sandberg — Lean In https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/17.svg I projected myself forward to age 80 and looked back. I knew at 80 I would not r Jeff Bezos — speech at Princeton · 2010 · the regret minimization framework https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/18.svg Most people overestimate what they can do in one year, and underestimate what th Bill Gates — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/19.svg Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. Anais Nin — The Diary of Anais Nin · 1939 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/20.svg And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than th Anais Nin — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/21.svg Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver — Sometimes · 2008 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/22.svg Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver — The Summer Day · 1990 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/23.svg Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is no Nelson Mandela — Long Walk to Freedom · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/24.svg Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway — letter · 1929 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/25.svg I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happ Mark Twain — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/26.svg Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt H. Jackson Brown Jr. (commonly misattributed to Twain) — P.S. I Love You · 1991 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/27.svg Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers — book title · 1987 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/28.svg Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you wan Dale Carnegie — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/29.svg The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/fear/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/fear/30.svg Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and attributed to Goethe (actually W. H. Murray paraphrasing) — The Scottish Himalayan Expedition · 1951 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/1.svg Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Warren Buffett — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/2.svg Price is what you pay; value is what you get. Warren Buffett — letter to shareholders https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/3.svg The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the pa Warren Buffett — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/4.svg If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you d Warren Buffett — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/5.svg The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting. Charlie Munger — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/6.svg Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome. Charlie Munger — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/7.svg It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by tryi Charlie Munger — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/8.svg Take a simple idea and take it seriously. Charlie Munger — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/9.svg Seek wealth, not money or status. Naval Ravikant — How to Get Rich · 2018 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/10.svg You're not going to get rich renting out your time. Naval Ravikant — How to Get Rich · 2018 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/11.svg Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rathe Naval Ravikant — How to Get Rich · 2018 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/12.svg Earn with your mind, not your time. Naval Ravikant — How to Get Rich · 2018 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/13.svg The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. Robert Kiyosaki — Rich Dad Poor Dad · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/14.svg It is not how much money you make, but how much money you keep. Robert Kiyosaki — Rich Dad Poor Dad · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/15.svg An asset puts money in your pocket. A liability takes money out. Robert Kiyosaki — Rich Dad Poor Dad · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/16.svg The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. Robert Kiyosaki — Rich Dad Poor Dad · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/17.svg Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are. Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/18.svg The most important variable in long-term wealth-building is patience. Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/19.svg Compounding is the most boring and the most lucrative thing in finance — those t Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/20.svg Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack. John Bogle — The Little Book of Common Sense Investing https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/21.svg The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions. John Bogle — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/22.svg Money is what we trade our life energy for. Vicki Robin — Your Money or Your Life · 1992 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/23.svg Financial independence is the experience of having enough — and then some. Vicki Robin — Your Money or Your Life · 1992 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/24.svg An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/25.svg Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin — Poor Richard's Almanack https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/26.svg A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/27.svg Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earn Albert Einstein — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/28.svg Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Andrew Carnegie — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/29.svg Know what you own, and know why you own it. Peter Lynch — One Up on Wall Street · 1989 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/financial-freedom/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/financial-freedom/30.svg It's not what you make, it's what you keep that matters. Tony Robbins — Money: Master the Game · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/1.svg The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. Th Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow · 1990 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/2.svg Contrary to what we usually believe, the best moments in our lives are not the p Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow · 1990 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/3.svg Happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow · 1990 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/4.svg The autotelic personality finds value in doing things for their own sake. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow · 1990 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/5.svg To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow · 1990 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/6.svg Flow is the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing el Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — TED · 2004 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/7.svg The body is always with us, but the self disappears in flow. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Finding Flow · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/8.svg Flow is the optimal performance state of the human nervous system. Steven Kotler — The Rise of Superman · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/9.svg In flow, the brain becomes hyper-efficient. Five major neurochemicals can be act Steven Kotler — The Art of Impossible · 2021 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/10.svg The four phases of the flow cycle: struggle, release, flow, recovery. Skip any o Steven Kotler — The Art of Impossible · 2021 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/11.svg Group flow is the most powerful productivity tool we have. Pixar runs on it. The Steven Kotler — Stealing Fire · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/12.svg Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding Cal Newport — Deep Work · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/13.svg Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not. Cal Newport — Deep Work · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/14.svg To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full co Cal Newport — Deep Work · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/15.svg Flow rides on top of a neurochemical cocktail: norepinephrine, dopamine, anandam Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab · podcast https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/16.svg The brain in flow drops the prefrontal cortex offline. That is why the self disa Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab · podcast https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/17.svg Don't think. Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentr Bruce Lee — Enter the Dragon · 1973 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/18.svg Be like water making its way through cracks. Adjust to the object, and you shall Bruce Lee — Tao of Jeet Kune Do · 1975 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/19.svg When you get there, there is no there there. You just keep going. Phil Jackson — Sacred Hoops · 1995 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/20.svg The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member Phil Jackson — Eleven Rings · 2013 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/21.svg When the five players on a basketball team operate as one organism, something ex Phil Jackson — Sacred Hoops · 1995 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/22.svg I forgot myself for several hours. When I looked up, the day was gone and I had A composer, age 50 — recorded by Csikszentmihalyi · Chicago · 1983 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/23.svg It is like flying. You see your hands doing the surgery, but you are somewhere a A heart surgeon, age 62 — recorded by Csikszentmihalyi · 1988 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/24.svg There is no thinking. The body just knows. If I start thinking on the wall, I fa A free climber, age 34 — recorded by Csikszentmihalyi · Yosemite · 1985 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/25.svg I do not know what time is. The morning becomes the evening and the day is gone. A novelist, age 71 — recorded by Csikszentmihalyi · 1990 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/26.svg Time slowed. The ball moved like it was suspended in glass. I could see the seam A baseball hitter, age 28 — on hitting in flow · 1992 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/27.svg The Zen state of "no mind" is the same state the climber calls being in the zone Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow · 1990 · footnote https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/28.svg Flow has a dark side. It is also what the slot machine produces. The neurochemis Steven Kotler — Stealing Fire · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/29.svg You cannot live in flow. The body cannot sustain it. The recovery is real. Steven Kotler — The Art of Impossible · 2021 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/flow-state/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/flow-state/30.svg We have built the most distracting environment in history, then asked humans to Cal Newport — Deep Work · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/1.svg I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Morrnah Simeona — the four phrases of Self-Identity Hoʻoponopono · 1976 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/2.svg The only place you can change anything is inside yourself. The outside world is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — Zero Limits · with Joe Vitale · 2007 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/3.svg I am 100% responsible for everything in my life — including what I do not like. Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — Hawaii State Hospital years · 1984–1987 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/4.svg Hoʻoponopono is not a technique. It is a way of being. The technique is a doorwa Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — Zero Limits seminars https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/5.svg You do not have to know what the problem is. You only have to clean. Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/6.svg Memories play. Inspirations come. The work is to choose which one you live by. Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — Zero Limits https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/7.svg Peace begins with me. Morrnah Simeona — the seed phrase of modern hoʻoponopono https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/8.svg When you say I love you to your body, it remembers it was loved before it was hu Morrnah Simeona — paraphrased · oral teaching https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/9.svg Hoʻoponopono — literally, to make right, to set right, to correct. The Hawaiian Mary Kawena Pukui — Nānā I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source) · 1972 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/10.svg In the old way, when one person in the family fell ill, the whole family came to Mary Kawena Pukui — Nānā I Ke Kumu https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/11.svg Pono is right relationship — between self and self, self and family, self and la Mary Kawena Pukui — Nānā I Ke Kumu · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/12.svg The four phrases are not magic words. They are a stance. The stance is: I see, I Joe Vitale — Zero Limits · 2007 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/13.svg Dr. Hew Len was the staff psychologist at Hawaii State Hospital for criminally i Joe Vitale — Zero Limits · the hospital story https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/14.svg The ego loves to blame. Hoʻoponopono takes the blame away from everyone — includ Joe Vitale — Zero Limits seminars https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/15.svg Aloha is the breath of life. Alo, presence. Ha, breath. To greet someone with al Hawaiian tradition — pre-contact wisdom · oral https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/16.svg You are made of three selves. The Unihipili is the child within — your subconsci traditional Hawaiian teaching — Huna lineage · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/17.svg When the three selves are aligned, you are pono. When they are at war, you are s traditional Hawaiian teaching — paraphrased · Huna https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/18.svg I love you is a sentence that does the work of a lifetime, if you are willing to Morrnah Simeona — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/19.svg Forgiveness is not for the other person. It is the act of removing the cord that Hoʻoponopono tradition — paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/20.svg When something repeats in your life, do not ask who is doing this to me. Ask: wh Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/21.svg Thank you is the phrase that turns the heart toward what is already given — whic traditional Hawaiian teaching — oral https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/22.svg The body is a perfect record of what has not been forgiven. Morrnah Simeona — paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/23.svg In the original family hoʻoponopono, the elder gathered everyone, the wronged sp Mary Kawena Pukui — Nānā I Ke Kumu · ritual described https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/24.svg The ancestor cleans through you. You clean for seven generations forward and sev traditional Hawaiian teaching — paraphrased · oral https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/25.svg I am sorry — not for what I did to you, but for whatever in me drew this scene t Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/26.svg To be pono with yourself is the first responsibility. Without it, you cannot be Hawaiian elders — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/27.svg Mahalo nui loa — thank you, very much. The phrase is not a politeness. It is a r Hawaiian tradition — oral https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/28.svg The strawberry, the blue solar water, the dewdrop — these are tools the Unihipil Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — seminar Q&A · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/29.svg When you say I am sorry, you are not confessing guilt. You are taking responsibi Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len — Zero Limits https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ho-oponopono/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ho-oponopono/30.svg Aloha au ia ʻoe. I love you. The shortest hoʻoponopono. Said to the self in the Hoʻoponopono tradition — paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/1.svg Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience, rather than about things. It is Meik Wiking — The Little Book of Hygge · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/2.svg Hygge is the art of creating intimacy: a sense of comradeship, conviviality, and Meik Wiking — The Little Book of Hygge · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/3.svg If you ask the Danes what they most associate with hygge, an overwhelming 85 per Meik Wiking — The Little Book of Hygge · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/4.svg Hygge has been called everything from the art of creating intimacy to coziness o Meik Wiking — The Little Book of Hygge · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/5.svg There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. Scandinavian proverb — traditional https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/6.svg Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. A. A. Milne — Winnie-the-Pooh https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/7.svg There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen — Emma · 1815 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/8.svg Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen — The Complete Fairy Tales https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/9.svg Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Søren Kierkegaard — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/10.svg Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a fri Edith Sitwell — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/11.svg He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/12.svg I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for Henry David Thoreau — Walden · 1854 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/13.svg I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. L. M. Montgomery — Anne of Green Gables · 1908 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/14.svg Attention is the beginning of devotion. Mary Oliver — Upstream · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/15.svg In an age of speed, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. Pico Iyer — The Art of Stillness · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/16.svg The slow philosophy is not about doing everything at a snail's pace. It is about Carl Honoré — In Praise of Slowness · 2004 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/17.svg Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance. Epicurus — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/18.svg There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/19.svg The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/20.svg Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realise t Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/21.svg In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Kahlil Gibran — The Prophet · 1923 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/22.svg The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you w Thich Nhat Hanh — Peace Is Every Step · 1991 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/23.svg Rest and be thankful. William Wordsworth — Inscription · 1799 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/24.svg Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, Benjamin Franklin — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/25.svg The hygge of an evening depends not on the size of the room but on the warmth of distilled maxim — on hygge https://humanconcepts.in/quote/hygge/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/hygge/26.svg Comfort is not a luxury to be earned later; it is the soil that ordinary days gr distilled maxim — on contentment https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/1.svg The goal of medicine is not to give patients more years of life. It is to give l Peter Attia — Outlive · 2023 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/2.svg Strength is the single most important physical metric to optimize for the second Peter Attia — Outlive · 2023 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/3.svg You can either die young at any age, or you can die old at a very old age. Compr Peter Attia — Outlive · 2023 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/4.svg If you want to live longer, your VO2 max matters more than almost anything else. Peter Attia — Outlive · 2023 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/5.svg Aging is a disease, and that disease is treatable. David Sinclair — Lifespan · 2019 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/6.svg The first person to live to 150 has already been born. David Sinclair — Lifespan · 2019 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/7.svg What gets you the next ten years is the same thing that gets you to a hundred: s Dan Buettner — The Blue Zones · 2008 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/8.svg In every Blue Zone, the centenarians do not exercise on purpose. The environment Dan Buettner — The Blue Zones · 2008 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/9.svg Eat until you are 80 percent full. Hara hachi bu. The Okinawans say it before ev Dan Buettner — The Blue Zones · 2008 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/10.svg Sleep is the foundation on which everything else stands. Lose sleep, lose health Matthew Walker — Why We Sleep · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/11.svg Routinely sleeping less than six hours a night demolishes your immune system, mo Matthew Walker — Why We Sleep · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/12.svg The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. Matthew Walker — Why We Sleep · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/13.svg Fasting is the most powerful longevity intervention we know — older than medicin Valter Longo — The Longevity Diet · 2018 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/14.svg A 16-hour fast switches the body from growth to repair. Do it most days. Valter Longo — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/15.svg Morning sunlight in the first hour of waking sets the entire circadian system. T Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab · podcast https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/16.svg Zone 2 is boring. That is the point. The body needs the boring. Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab · podcast https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/17.svg We did not evolve to exercise. We evolved to move when survival required it. We Daniel Lieberman — Exercised · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/18.svg Sitting is the smoking of our generation. James Levine — Mayo Clinic · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/19.svg Sugar is not a calorie problem. It is a poison problem. Robert Lustig — Metabolical · 2021 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/20.svg Eighty percent of chronic disease is preventable by lifestyle. Not most. Eighty Robert Lustig — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/21.svg Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food. Hippocrates — ~400 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/22.svg Walking is a man's best medicine. Hippocrates — ~400 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/23.svg Everything in moderation, including moderation. Oscar Wilde — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/24.svg When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strengt Herophilus — ~300 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/25.svg Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/26.svg I do not eat to live. I live to eat well, slowly, with people I love. A 102-year-old Sardinian woman — recorded by Buettner · Ogliastra, Sardinia https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/27.svg Move every day. Not because you want to live longer, but because you want today A 99-year-old Okinawan farmer — recorded by Buettner · Ogliastra, Okinawa https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/28.svg The first thing I do in the morning is decide that I will get up. The rest follo A 101-year-old Loma Linda Adventist — recorded by Buettner · Loma Linda, California https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/29.svg You do not stop moving because you grow old. You grow old because you stop movin A 97-year-old Nicoyan — recorded by Buettner · Nicoya, Costa Rica https://humanconcepts.in/quote/longevity/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/longevity/30.svg I have outlived three doctors. They told me to slow down. I never did. A 105-year-old Ikarian — recorded by Buettner · Ikaria, Greece https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/1.svg I have not lied. I have not stolen. I have not caused another to weep. I have no Anonymous scribe — Book of the Dead, Spell 125 (Negative Confessions) · c. 1550 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/2.svg Your heart is weighed on the scale against the feather of Maat. May it be found Anonymous scribe — Book of the Dead, Spell 125 · the weighing of the heart https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/3.svg I am one whose heart is light. I have done what is loved by gods and men. Anonymous scribe — Book of the Dead, Spell 30B · the heart's plea https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/4.svg Maat is great and its effectiveness lasting. It has not been disturbed since the Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · c. 2400 BCE · the oldest book in the world https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/5.svg If you find yourself in a position of authority, be courteous. The mouth of a wi Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · maxim on authority https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/6.svg Do not be proud of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as the Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · maxim on humility https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/7.svg Hearken to your wife. Make her happy as long as you live. She is a fertile field Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · maxim on partnership https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/8.svg Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Then your counsels will be among the mag Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · maxim on restraint of speech https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/9.svg Greed is a grievous sickness, of which there is no remedy. There is no relief fo Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · maxim on greed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/10.svg Speak truth, do truth, for it is great. It is mighty. It endures. Maat is its na Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · the central maxim https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/11.svg A good listener is half a good speaker. Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · on listening https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/12.svg Pleasant is the speech of him who hears. Ptahhotep — Maxims of Ptahhotep · on the value of hearing https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/13.svg Set Maat in your heart and your tongue will speak it. The two are not different. Anonymous scribe — Coffin Texts · Middle Kingdom https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/14.svg I have given bread to the hungry and water to the thirsty. I have given clothes Anonymous scribe — Book of the Dead, Spell 125 (Positive Confessions) · the works of Maat https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/15.svg When you have authority, be aware: Maat does not look down on the small ones. Th Amenemope — Wisdom of Amenemope · c. 1300 BCE · the book Proverbs partly draws from https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/16.svg Do not move the boundary stones on the fields, nor shift the position of the mea Amenemope — Wisdom of Amenemope · the original commandment against fraud https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/17.svg Speak the truth in the gateway, even if it earns you the king's displeasure. Amenemope — Wisdom of Amenemope · on civic courage https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/18.svg The ka of a man (his vital essence) lasts only as long as Maat has shaped him. Anonymous scribe — Pyramid Texts · Utterance 600 · c. 2400 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/19.svg Isfet is the opposite of Maat. It is the chaos that must be held back daily. The attributed — Egyptian theological corpus · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/20.svg I have offered Maat to Ra. I have spoken Maat in the place of judgment. Maat asc Anonymous scribe — Book of the Dead, Spell 1 · the morning hymn https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/21.svg She is the daughter of Ra. She rides in the solar boat. The world is held togeth Anonymous scribe — Hymn to Maat · New Kingdom https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/22.svg Tell the truth. Live in such a way that you can tell the truth. Egyptian proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/23.svg Be careful of the words of one whose face is hidden. The mask is the lie. Egyptian proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/24.svg The akh — the spirit that survives — is built by Maat in this life. Nothing else attributed — Egyptian funerary theology · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/25.svg You enter the next life carrying only what you weighed. Your titles are left at attributed — paraphrased from the Weighing scene https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/26.svg Hekau — the words of power — work only when spoken from a heart aligned with Maa attributed — Egyptian magical theory · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/27.svg A judge who shows favor to the rich is hated by Maat. The widow and the orphan s attributed — paraphrased Coffin Texts https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/28.svg Do not let your tongue run ahead of your heart. Maat is in the small moment of w Egyptian proverb — paraphrased Ptahhotep https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/29.svg Reciprocity is the law of Maat made small. The hand that gives is the hand that attributed — paraphrased Wisdom literature https://humanconcepts.in/quote/maat/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/maat/30.svg Anubis weighs the heart. Thoth records the result. Ammit waits. The deceased rec Anonymous scribe — Book of the Dead, Spell 125 · the courtroom scene https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/1.svg When you think you are done, you are at 40 percent of your capacity. The other 6 David Goggins — Can't Hurt Me · 2018 · the 40% Rule https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/2.svg Most people quit when it gets hard because the hard part is where the work is. E David Goggins — Can't Hurt Me · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/3.svg The Accountability Mirror is not pretty. It is not motivational. It is a mirror David Goggins — Can't Hurt Me · the Accountability Mirror https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/4.svg Keep a cookie jar. Every time you do something hard you did not think you could David Goggins — Can't Hurt Me · the Cookie Jar https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/5.svg I do not stop when I am tired. I stop when I am done. David Goggins — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/6.svg The hard times will come. The hard times will go. Your job is to keep your soul David Goggins — Never Finished · 2022 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/7.svg Discipline equals freedom. Jocko Willink — Discipline Equals Freedom · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/8.svg Extreme Ownership. Everything in your world is your responsibility. The cost of Jocko Willink — Extreme Ownership · 2015 · with Leif Babin https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/9.svg Good. Whatever happens — your plan failed, your team is short — say good. Now I Jocko Willink — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/10.svg There is no magic. There is no shortcut. You wake up early. You do the work. You Jocko Willink — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/11.svg Box breathing — four seconds in, four hold, four out, four hold — is the breath Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab podcast · 2021 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/12.svg Deliberate cold exposure releases dopamine in a tonic and lasting way — the same Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab podcast · cold protocols https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/13.svg The brain learns to associate effort with reward only when you stay present in t Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab · the dopamine-effort link https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/14.svg You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your trainin Archilochus (attributed to Greek soldier-poet) — often quoted by Mark Divine and Navy SEALs https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/15.svg The mind is the elite athlete's most powerful asset. Train it like you train the Mark Divine — Unbeatable Mind · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/16.svg Front-load the suck. Do the hardest thing first while willpower is highest. The Mark Divine — Unbeatable Mind · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/17.svg Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson — pre-fight interview · 1987 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/18.svg I visualized the fight ten thousand times before I walked in the ring. The fight Mike Tyson — paraphrased · Iron Mike on mental reps https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/19.svg Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Stamina, not intensit Angela Duckworth — Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance · 2016 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/20.svg The most successful people I have studied had a clear top-level goal and a hiera Angela Duckworth — Grit · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/21.svg A growth mindset is the belief that abilities can be developed. A fixed mindset Carol Dweck — Mindset: The New Psychology of Success · 2006 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/22.svg Becoming is better than being. Carol Dweck — Mindset · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/23.svg Today, victory over yourself. Yesterday, victory over a lesser opponent. Tomorro Miyamoto Musashi — The Book of Five Rings · 1645 · the way of the warrior https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/24.svg Do nothing that is of no use. Miyamoto Musashi — The Book of Five Rings · the Earth Scroll https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/25.svg There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a g Miyamoto Musashi — The Book of Five Rings · the Wind Scroll https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/26.svg Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye. Miyamoto Musashi — The Book of Five Rings https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/27.svg The most important thing in life is the journey, not the destination. The toughn attributed — modern paraphrase https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/28.svg You become what you tolerate. If you tolerate the inner voice that says quit, th paraphrased Goggins/Jocko — modern doctrine of mental toughness https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/29.svg The day you sit with discomfort and do not run is the day your nervous system le attributed modern psychology — ACT/exposure therapy paraphrase https://humanconcepts.in/quote/mental-toughness/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/mental-toughness/30.svg A man is what he repeatedly does. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Will Durant (paraphrasing Aristotle) — The Story of Philosophy · 1926 · often misattributed to Aristotle himself https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/1.svg Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period. Robert Waldinger — TED · 2015 · summarising 75 years of the Harvard Study https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/2.svg The people who fared the best were the people who leaned into relationships, wit Robert Waldinger — TED · 2015 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/3.svg Loneliness kills. It is as powerful as smoking or alcoholism. Robert Waldinger — TED · 2015 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/4.svg When we gathered together everything we knew about them at age 50, it was not th Robert Waldinger — TED · 2015 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/5.svg I can predict, with 94% accuracy, whether a marriage will succeed or fail, by wa John Gottman — The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work · 1999 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/6.svg Contempt is the single greatest predictor of divorce. John Gottman — Why Marriages Succeed or Fail · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/7.svg Stable marriages have a ratio of five positive interactions to every one negativ John Gottman — The Magic Ratio · 1992 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/8.svg A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same Mignon McLaughlin — The Second Neurotic's Notebook · 1966 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/9.svg The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life. Esther Perel — Where Should We Begin · podcast https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/10.svg The crisis of connection is the crisis of our time. Esther Perel — Mating in Captivity · 2006 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/11.svg Eroticism in long-term love requires distance, mystery, and a partner you have n Esther Perel — Mating in Captivity · 2006 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/12.svg We need to feel close, but if we are too close, the spark is extinguished. Esther Perel — The Erotic is an Antidote to Death · TED 2013 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/13.svg Vulnerability is not weakness. It is our most accurate measure of courage. Brene Brown — Daring Greatly · 2012 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/14.svg Connection is why we are here. We are hard-wired to connect with others, it is w Brene Brown — The Gifts of Imperfection · 2010 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/15.svg Shame cannot survive being spoken. Brene Brown — TED · 2010 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/16.svg A.R.E. — Are you Accessible? Are you Responsive? Are you Engaged? The three ques Sue Johnson — Hold Me Tight · 2008 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/17.svg We are wired to need a few irreplaceable others. Love is not an emotion. It is a Sue Johnson — Hold Me Tight · 2008 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/18.svg Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/19.svg Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics · ~330 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/20.svg Without friends, no one would choose to live, even if he had all other goods. Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics · Book VIII https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/21.svg Loneliness is the leprosy of modern life. Mother Teresa — address · 1979 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/22.svg In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of ou Martin Luther King Jr. — speech · 1968 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/23.svg There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou — I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings · 1969 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/24.svg Loneliness is now associated with a greater risk of premature death than obesity Vivek Murthy — Surgeon General Advisory · 2023 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/25.svg We are designed to be in relationship. From birth to the day we die, we need oth Vivek Murthy — Together · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/26.svg Two people who really love each other are more than two people — they are a thir A 60-year-old Harvard study participant — recorded by Vaillant · 1996 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/27.svg We do not need more good ideas about love. We need to call the people we love to Mary Oliver — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/28.svg Hold onto the people you love. It is the whole work. A 95-year-old widow, Harvard Study — recorded by Waldinger · 2010 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/29.svg The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connecti Johann Hari — TED · 2015 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/relationships/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/relationships/30.svg All real living is meeting. Martin Buber — I and Thou · 1923 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/1.svg The difference between successful people and really successful people is that re Warren Buffett — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/2.svg Focusing is about saying no. Steve Jobs — WWDC · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/3.svg People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But tha Steve Jobs — 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/4.svg It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really im Steve Jobs — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/5.svg Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even whe Brené Brown — The Gifts of Imperfection · 2010 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/6.svg When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mis Brené Brown — Rising Strong · 2015 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/7.svg You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleas Stephen R. Covey — The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People · 1989 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/8.svg A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "yes" merely uttered Mahatma Gandhi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/9.svg Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and no Josh Billings — 19th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/10.svg If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will. Greg McKeown — Essentialism · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/11.svg The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of r Greg McKeown — Essentialism · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/12.svg Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously. Prentis Hemphill — interview · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/13.svg When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself. Paulo Coelho — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/14.svg Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do. Rachel Wolchin — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/15.svg The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/16.svg Self-care is giving the world the best of you, not what's left of you. Katie Reed — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/17.svg No is a complete sentence. Anne Lamott — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/18.svg We need to learn the slow yes and the quick no. Tom Friel — via Greg McKeown, Essentialism https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/19.svg Boundaries are a part of self-care. They are healthy, normal, and necessary. Doreen Virtue — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/20.svg You get to choose what you tolerate. People will treat you the way you allow the common maxim — on boundaries https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/21.svg Saying no can be the most self-loving, self-respecting thing you do all week. Nedra Glover Tawwab — Set Boundaries, Find Peace · 2021 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/22.svg Boundaries are not about pushing people away; they're about making it safe to le Nedra Glover Tawwab — Set Boundaries, Find Peace · 2021 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/23.svg The oldest, shortest words — "yes" and "no" — are those which require the most t Pythagoras — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/24.svg Every time you say yes to something unimportant, you say no to something importa common maxim — on priorities https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/25.svg Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say no witho Steve Maraboli — Life, the Truth, and Being Free · 2009 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/saying-no/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/saying-no/26.svg A clear no protects a relationship far better than a resentful yes ever will. distilled maxim — on boundaries https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/1.svg Sisu is not grit. Grit is goal-oriented; sisu is value-oriented and shows up unb Emilia Lahti — doctoral research · Aalto University · 2019 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/2.svg Sisu is the second wind of mental fortitude — the strength to take action agains Emilia Lahti — TEDx Turku · 2014 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/3.svg There is harmful sisu — the kind that grinds you under. And there is benevolent Emilia Lahti — Sisu Not Silence · 2017 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/4.svg Sisu is the moment when, having done all you could, you continue. Emilia Lahti — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/5.svg The good life is not about searching for happiness. It is about doing what is me Frank Martela — A Wonderful Life · 2020 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/6.svg Finns do not say "I love you." They build something with you and let the years s Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/7.svg Work, with patience, even iron breaks. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/8.svg Beneath the snow, the seed. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/9.svg Silence is also an answer. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/10.svg A tree falls on the side it leans toward. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/11.svg In your own house, in your own way. Finnish proverb — oral tradition · expression of Finnish privacy and autonomy https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/12.svg Hard work breaks even the heaviest stone. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/13.svg Vainamoinen sang the rocks to move. He did not sing them gently. The Kalevala — Finnish national epic · compiled 1849 by Elias Lonnrot https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/14.svg Out of nothing, the smith Ilmarinen forged the sky. The Kalevala — Rune 9 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/15.svg Suffering teaches you what comfort cannot. paraphrased from the Kalevala — Finnish tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/16.svg Music begins where words fail. It is not that music is too vague for words — it Jean Sibelius — diary · 1898 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/17.svg Pay no attention to what the critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a cr Jean Sibelius — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/18.svg The work that has not been done is the only one without flaws. Jean Sibelius — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/19.svg You will never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human Tove Jansson (Moomin author) — Moominpappas Memoirs · 1968 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/20.svg The Moomins sing of darkness so that we may sit beside them in it. Tove Jansson — commentary on her own work · 1972 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/21.svg A theatre is not a place where one tells lies. It is a place where one tells the Tove Jansson — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/22.svg Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Linus Torvalds — on the Linux kernel mailing list · 2000 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/23.svg Software is like sex. It is better when it is free. Linus Torvalds — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/24.svg Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get Linus Torvalds — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/25.svg Sauna is the poor mans pharmacy. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/26.svg In the sauna, all are equal. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/27.svg Every Finn has the right to walk in any forest, regardless of who owns it. jokamiehenoikeus — Finnish public law · everyones right https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/28.svg Hiljaisuus on kullaa. Silence is gold. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/29.svg Even a small lake reflects the sky. Finnish proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sisu/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sisu/30.svg The Finn carries the forest inside. Finnish saying — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/1.svg You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will f Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 6.30 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/2.svg The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 5.16 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/3.svg Confine yourself to the present. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 7.29 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/4.svg You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 2.11 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/5.svg Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 10.16 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/6.svg When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be al Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 2.1 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/7.svg It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to li Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 12.1 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/8.svg Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring u Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 7.59 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/9.svg Choose not to be harmed — and you will not feel harmed. Choose not to feel harme Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 4.7 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/10.svg The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in Marcus Aurelius — Meditations 7.69 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/11.svg It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus — Enchiridion 5 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/12.svg No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus — Discourses 4.1 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/13.svg Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus — Fragment 25 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/14.svg Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. Epictetus — Enchiridion 46 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/15.svg First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus — Discourses 3.23 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/16.svg He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoic Epictetus — Discourses 4.1 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/17.svg We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say. Epictetus — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/18.svg Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus — Enchiridion 8 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/19.svg Some things are in our control and others are not. Therein lies the entire found Epictetus — Enchiridion 1 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/20.svg You become what you give your attention to. Epictetus — Discourses https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/21.svg We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Seneca — Letters from a Stoic 13 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/22.svg Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Seneca — Letters https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/23.svg It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca — Letters 2 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/24.svg Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body. Seneca — Letters https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/25.svg Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca — Letters 78 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/26.svg As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Seneca — Letters 76 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/27.svg While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca — Letters 1 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/28.svg Life, if well lived, is long enough. Seneca — On the Shortness of Life https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/29.svg All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca — Letters 28 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/stoicism/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/stoicism/30.svg A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. Seneca — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/1.svg You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? Jalaluddin Rumi — Masnavi · 13th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/2.svg The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Jalaluddin Rumi — Masnavi https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/3.svg What you seek is seeking you. Jalaluddin Rumi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/4.svg Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you Jalaluddin Rumi — A Great Wagon · Masnavi https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/5.svg When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Jalaluddin Rumi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/6.svg Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Jalaluddin Rumi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/7.svg Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers Jalaluddin Rumi — Masnavi · paraphrased Coleman Barks https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/8.svg I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door Jalaluddin Rumi — Masnavi https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/9.svg Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I a Jalaluddin Rumi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/10.svg Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. Jalaluddin Rumi — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/11.svg I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing lig Hafiz of Shiraz — Divan · 14th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/12.svg Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look wh Hafiz of Shiraz — Divan https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/13.svg The small man builds cages for everyone he knows. While the sage, who has to duc Hafiz of Shiraz — Divan https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/14.svg A poet is someone who can pour Light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your b Hafiz of Shiraz — Divan https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/15.svg When the heart grieves for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it ha attributed Sufi saying — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/16.svg The Seven Valleys of the soul are seven, and the journey through them is the wor Fariduddin Attar — The Conference of the Birds · 12th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/17.svg The drop becomes the ocean. The ocean is the drop. Fariduddin Attar — The Conference of the Birds https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/18.svg They reached the Simorgh — and saw that the Simorgh was themselves. Fariduddin Attar — The Conference of the Birds · climax https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/19.svg All the prophets begin with the same word: come. Fariduddin Attar — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/20.svg Whoever knows himself knows his Lord. Ibn Arabi — Fusus al-Hikam · 13th century · paraphrased hadith https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/21.svg The Beloved is in your house, in your sleeve, in the mirror of your own face. Th Ibn Arabi — Futuhat al-Makkiyya · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/22.svg My heart has opened to every form. It is a pasture for gazelles, a cloister for Ibn Arabi — Tarjuman al-Ashwaq · poem 11 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/23.svg There are as many paths to God as there are souls on earth. Hazrat Inayat Khan — The Inner Life · 1920s https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/24.svg The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the Hazrat Inayat Khan — The Sufi Message https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/25.svg I love Thee with two loves — love for my own happiness, and perfect love, to lov Rabia al-Adawiyya — attributed · 8th century · the first woman Sufi master https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/26.svg O God, if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee Rabia al-Adawiyya — attributed · paraphrased https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/27.svg Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? Rumi (via Shams of Tabriz) — Forty Rules of Love · attributed Shams https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/28.svg The Sufi opens his hand to the universe and gives away each instant, free. Junayd of Baghdad — 9th century · attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/29.svg I am the Truth. Mansur al-Hallaj — before execution · 922 CE · the most famous fana utterance https://humanconcepts.in/quote/sufism/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/sufism/30.svg When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has fou Sufi proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/1.svg The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 1 · ~600 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/2.svg A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet. Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 64 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/3.svg When the best leader's work is done, the people say, "We did it ourselves." Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 17 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/4.svg Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming t Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 78 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/5.svg Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering other Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 33 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/6.svg To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things eve Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 48 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/7.svg Reversal is the movement of the Tao. Weakness is the use of the Tao. Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 40 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/8.svg Who can wait quietly while the mud settles? Who can remain still until the momen Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 15 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/9.svg The sage does not accumulate. The more he does for others, the more he has. The Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 81 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/10.svg Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub. It is the centre hole that makes it useful. Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 11 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/11.svg I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is compassion. The secon Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 67 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/12.svg When you are content to be simply yourself and do not compare or compete, everyb Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 8 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/13.svg Once upon a time, Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly. He did not know he was C Chuang Tzu — Zhuangzi · The Butterfly Dream · ~300 BCE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/14.svg A good cook changes his knife once a year, because he cuts. A bad cook changes h Chuang Tzu — Zhuangzi · The Cook Cutting the Ox https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/15.svg All men know the use of the useful, but no one knows the use of the useless. Chuang Tzu — Zhuangzi · The Useless Tree https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/16.svg Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free. Stay centred by accept Chuang Tzu — Zhuangzi https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/17.svg Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, Bruce Lee — television interview · 1971 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/18.svg A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to Bruce Lee — Tao of Jeet Kune Do · 1975 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/19.svg The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/20.svg The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scen Alan Watts — lecture series · 1960s https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/21.svg Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Alan Watts — The Wisdom of Insecurity · 1951 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/22.svg Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. Alan Watts — paraphrasing Lao Tzu https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/23.svg You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is con Alan Watts — The Book · 1966 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/24.svg The Tao Te Ching is partly in praise of anarchy. It says that the more you make Ursula K. Le Guin — introduction to her translation · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/25.svg Wei wu wei — "do not do." Action by non-action. A practical political handbook. Ursula K. Le Guin — commentary on Tao Te Ching · 1997 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/26.svg The way to do is to be. Lao Tzu (via Le Guin) — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 47 paraphrase https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/27.svg When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the w Benjamin Hoff — The Tao of Pooh · 1982 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/28.svg A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge does not really care, wisdom does. Benjamin Hoff — The Tao of Pooh · 1982 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/29.svg When the small man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · Chapter 41 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tao/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tao/30.svg If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching · attributed paraphrase https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/1.svg When you breathe in, you take in someone else's pain. When you breathe out, you Pema Chodron — When Things Fall Apart · 1996 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/2.svg The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can d Pema Chodron — Start Where You Are · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/3.svg Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It is a rel Pema Chodron — When Things Fall Apart https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/4.svg Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Pema Chodron — When Things Fall Apart https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/5.svg Be grateful to everyone. Atisha — Lojong slogan 13 · ~1050 CE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/6.svg Drive all blames into one. Atisha — Lojong slogan 12 · ~1050 CE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/7.svg Whatever you meet unexpectedly, join with meditation. Chekawa — Seven Points of Mind Training · ~1130 CE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/8.svg My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama — speeches · attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/9.svg We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Dalai Lama — The Art of Happiness · 1998 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/10.svg If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, pr Dalai Lama — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/11.svg The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama — The Art of Happiness https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/12.svg Death is not an end but a moment of arising into another bardo. The way we have Sogyal Rinpoche — The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying · 1992 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/13.svg When you are sad and depressed, when life seems to have lost its meaning, that i Sogyal Rinpoche — The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/14.svg Whenever we follow our wandering, scattered minds, we are creating the condition Sogyal Rinpoche — Glimpse After Glimpse · 1995 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/15.svg The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parach Chogyam Trungpa — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/16.svg Discipline is not pleasing the teacher; it is keeping the work in your own hands Chogyam Trungpa — Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism · 1973 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/17.svg In meditation, do not look for a particular kind of experience. The point of the Chogyam Trungpa — Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior · 1984 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/18.svg In the cool shade of trees, the lord of yogis sat. The hare cradled the moon. Ea Milarepa — Songs of Milarepa · ~1100 CE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/19.svg When you understand the meaning of impermanence, all clinging falls away. When c Milarepa — Songs of Milarepa https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/20.svg I sing because I cannot remember a time before I sang. The practice has eaten my Milarepa — Songs of Milarepa https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/21.svg All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the Shantideva — The Way of the Bodhisattva · 8th century CE https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/22.svg If a problem can be solved, why worry? If a problem cannot be solved, what is th Shantideva — The Way of the Bodhisattva https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/23.svg May I be a guard for those who are protectorless, a guide for those who journey Shantideva — The Way of the Bodhisattva · the Bodhisattva's aspiration https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/24.svg Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the pres Thich Nhat Hanh — Peace Is Every Step · 1991 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/25.svg Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/26.svg The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, Thich Nhat Hanh — Touching Peace · 1992 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/27.svg Maitri begins with the simple, radical act of being kind to yourself. Pema Chodron — The Places That Scare You · 2001 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/28.svg Tonglen reverses the usual logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure. In Pema Chodron — The Places That Scare You https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/29.svg There is a Tibetan word, shenpa. It means hooked. The moment you notice the hook Pema Chodron — Getting Unstuck · 2005 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/tonglen/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/tonglen/30.svg The way out is the way in. The only way out is through. attributed Tibetan saying — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/1.svg A person is a person through other people. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. Zulu proverb — foundational Ubuntu saying https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/2.svg Ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question ther Nelson Mandela — interview · 2006 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/3.svg My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Desmond Tutu — No Future Without Forgiveness · 1999 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/4.svg A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does Desmond Tutu — No Future Without Forgiveness · 1999 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/5.svg We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one Desmond Tutu — God Has a Dream · 2004 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/6.svg To say nothing is also a position, but in Ubuntu thought, silence is collusion. Desmond Tutu — sermon · 1985 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/7.svg There can be no future without forgiveness — and no forgiveness without truth. Desmond Tutu — No Future Without Forgiveness · 1999 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/8.svg I am because we are. Without you, I am not. Bantu philosophical formulation — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/9.svg Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela — speech · Johannesburg · 2003 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/10.svg When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his count Nelson Mandela — Long Walk to Freedom · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/11.svg I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The Nelson Mandela — Long Walk to Freedom · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/12.svg It always seems impossible until it is done. Nelson Mandela — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/13.svg Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandela — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/14.svg Sawubona — I see you. The greeting that contains a whole philosophy. Zulu greeting — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/15.svg Yebo, sawubona — yes, I see you too. The reply that completes the recognition. Zulu greeting — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/16.svg In the African philosophy of Ubuntu, leadership is service. The leader is the se Mbigi Lovemore — Ubuntu: The African Dream in Management · 1995 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/17.svg Western individualism asks: what is in it for me? Ubuntu asks: what does this me Mbigi Lovemore — Ubuntu: The African Dream in Management · 1995 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/18.svg The Indaba — the council of voices — is the way Ubuntu makes decisions. Nobody o Mbigi Lovemore — paraphrased from Ubuntu management literature https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/19.svg I will not abandon Mother Nature. I will not abandon my people. I will not aband Wangari Maathai — Unbowed · 2006 · the Greenbelt Movement https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/20.svg You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understand Wangari Maathai — speeches · 1990s https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/21.svg It is the little things citizens do. That is what will make the difference. My l Wangari Maathai — Nobel Peace Prize lecture · 2004 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/22.svg If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/23.svg Each one, teach one. African saying · post-slavery USA / pan-African — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/24.svg When elephants fight, the grass suffers. When they make love, the grass also suf Kikuyu proverb — East African https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/25.svg The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmt African proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/26.svg A single bracelet does not jingle. Congolese proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/27.svg However long the night, the dawn will break. African proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/28.svg No matter how full the river is, it still wants to grow. Congolese proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/29.svg Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. African proverb — oral tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/ubuntu/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/ubuntu/30.svg I am, because you are. Ubuntu summary — taught at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission · 1996 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/1 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/1.svg When the tea bowl is cracked, the crack is not a flaw to be hidden. It is the bo Japanese proverb — on kintsugi https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/2 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/2.svg In the tearoom, the host sweeps and waters the path, but leaves a few fallen lea Sen no Rikyu — recorded in the Nanporoku · 16th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/3 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/3.svg Rikyu's son swept the garden until it was spotless. Rikyu shook a maple, and thr Sen no Rikyu — tea-ceremony tradition https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/4 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/4.svg Tea is naught but this: first you make the water boil, then infuse the tea. Then Sen no Rikyu — attributed https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/5 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/5.svg The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Kakuzo Okakura — The Book of Tea · 1906 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/6 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/6.svg Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid fact Kakuzo Okakura — The Book of Tea · 1906 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/7 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/7.svg The mistakes of beauty are dearer to us than the flawlessness of the machine. Kakuzo Okakura — The Book of Tea · 1906 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/8 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/8.svg We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light Junichiro Tanizaki — In Praise of Shadows · 1933 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/9 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/9.svg Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. Junichiro Tanizaki — In Praise of Shadows · 1933 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/10 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/10.svg We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a Junichiro Tanizaki — In Praise of Shadows · 1933 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/11 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/11.svg Wabi-sabi is the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is Leonard Koren — Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/12 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/12.svg Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry. Keep things clean and une Leonard Koren — Wabi-Sabi · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/13 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/13.svg Wabi-sabi is exactly about the great, getting-old universe and our tiny, tempora Leonard Koren — Wabi-Sabi · 1994 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/14 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/14.svg All things are impermanent, all things are imperfect, and all things are incompl Richard Powell — Wabi Sabi Simple · 2004 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/15 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/15.svg Wabi-sabi reminds us that we are all transient beings on this planet — that our Andrew Juniper — Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence · 2003 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/16 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/16.svg If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melanch Andrew Juniper — Wabi Sabi · 2003 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/17 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/17.svg The crow, having no garments, is never cold. The pheasant, dragging its long tai Ryokan — Zen poems · 18th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/18 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/18.svg The thief left it behind — the moon at the window. Ryokan — haiku, after thieves stole his few possessions https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/19 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/19.svg My hut burned down — now I can see the moon more clearly. Mizuta Masahide — haiku · 17th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/20 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/20.svg An old silent pond. A frog jumps in — the sound of water. Matsuo Basho — haiku · 1686 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/21 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/21.svg The temple bell stops — but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. Matsuo Basho — haiku · 17th century https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/22 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/22.svg Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Matsuo Basho — The Narrow Road to the Deep North · 1694 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/23 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/23.svg The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. Yoshida Kenko — Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) · c.1330 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/24 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/24.svg If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like t Yoshida Kenko — Essays in Idleness · c.1330 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/25 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/25.svg Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is c Yoshida Kenko — Essays in Idleness · c.1330 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/26 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/26.svg The beauty of a craft lies not in its perfection, but in the honesty of the hand Soetsu Yanagi — The Unknown Craftsman · 1972 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/27 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/27.svg Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs. Soetsu Yanagi — The Unknown Craftsman · 1972 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/28 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/28.svg It is the imperfect, the irregular, the momentary, that holds the deepest beauty Yasunari Kawabata — Nobel lecture, Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself · 1968 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/29 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/29.svg The flower of perfect knowledge blooms in the gap where certainty ends. D.T. Suzuki — Zen and Japanese Culture · 1959 https://humanconcepts.in/quote/wabi-sabi/30 https://humanconcepts.in/q/wabi-sabi/30.svg Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. Once you accept this Wabi-sabi maxim — distilled tradition