Life
It’s almost always about money.
Money leads to success which leads to more money
In is the only way out.
Life is a sine curve.
It's just an idea. It's not me.
What a time to be alive.
I can think, I can wait, I can fast
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Martin Luther King
The more you learn, the more you earn -- Warren Buffet
90% of everything is crap/junk -- Sturgeon's Revelation
When in doubt zoom out
Be Kind to Everyone!
Be self controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 (Bible)
I have seen a community where humans work for humanity and not for money.
The cost of perfection is infinite
Don't do unto others, what you don't want done unto you
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together
Don't waste a good crisis
Lifting while you climb
Start small and scale big
All or none
Time is long but life is short
Forewarned is forearmed
If You Avoid Thinking About the Future, You Get Better at Everything
When you can't build higher, dig deeper.
Life is not about what you do. It is all about how you do it.
Time is the best rebuttal
The world rewards you for value provided, not time spent.
The important thing is not to keep winning, but to keep reaching
Body and mind are vehicles to serve you, not the other way around
One of the only true shortcuts in life is finding an expert and apprenticing under them
A small act is worth a million thoughts
Doing it right is hard. Doing it over is harder
Put a smile on your face for the whole human race.
I've seen men die at the age of 25, yet buried at the age of 75. -- Benjamin Franklin
Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life -- Jerzy Gregorek
Society is just 3 missed meals away from total collapse
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. - Bjarne Stroustrup, Creator of C++
Change is the only constant in life
Optimism is an hard thing to choose
Ultimately, your success in life depends on how much clarity you have -- Sadhguru
Change is here. It's faster than ever. It's more pronounced than ever. And it's more impactful than ever.
To live one's life in the best way: the power to do this resides within our soul, if we are capable of being indifferent to indifferent things. I'm indifferent
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Don't always think of the future, do path corrections in regular intervals and use exponential-backoff algorithm if everything is right
Time is not the thing you find, time is the thing you make
The answers of the future are in the past
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe -- AbrahamLincoln
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way --Mark Twain
Cut yourself off when you need to (if you give yourself shorter timelines, you'll get more done) - often 80% is sufficient
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge -- Stephen Hawking
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right -- Henry Ford
I have had a good life and I have accomplished all I wanted to, and more than I had a right to expect I would. -- Isaac Asimov
If everything is coming your way, then you are on the wrong lane.
Never Half-Ass two thing, Whole-Ass one thing
Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better -- Émile Coué
Be a better person than you were today
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks -- Winston S. Churchill
Quitting is never an option
Everything can be done, it's just a matter of wanting to do it or not
The lesson of Pratyahara is that you become friend with your mind. You cannot control your mind in one day, (like wild horses). You have to do it slowly
Power to him who power exerts -- Emerson
You must do the things you think you cannot do -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I know one thing, that I know nothing
Knowledge is not power, knowledge is potential power, it only becomes power when you act on it
Key to immortality is to live a life worth remembering
Don't let school get in the way of your education
Like a feather blowing in the wind, the best you can do is travel as the wind takes you
History repeats itself
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes -- Mark Twain
I believe that the future is only the past again, just entered through another gate!
if you dont have anything good to say, then dont say anything at all
Sorry doesn't make a dead man alive
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisionous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poision.
Be careful how you talk to yourself, you are always listening
A joke is only a joke if both people think it's funny
When spider webs unite, they can halt even a lion
Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them
You can't let the mistakes of the past dictate/determine your future
The fact that we are different doesn't mean that one of us is wrong. It just means that there are different kinds of right --Faith Jegede
The power to question is the basis of all human progress -- Indira Gandhi
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your formerself
Long-term consistency beats short-term intensity -- Bruce Lee
The unexamined life is not worth living -- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing -- Socrates
What is past is prologue -- Shakespeare
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it -- Daniel Kahneman
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge -- Confusious
Tell me and I forget.Teach me and I remember.Involve me and I learn. --Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin, probably by Xunzi
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. -- Alfred North Whitehead
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. -- Yogi Berra
Practice makes perfect
Practice, under pressure, with focus, and with that glorious end goal in sight, makes perfect.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson
How you handle a situation is not entirely your choice. But how you handle yourself is entirely yours
What you do should not define who you are. Who you are should define what u do. -- Sadhguru
Do not look up to anything, nor look down on anything. Then you will see creation just the way it is. -- Sadhguru
Every life is a possibility. If you want to keep that possibility open, never ever form an opinion of any sort on anyone. --Sadhguru
But all my life though, the very insistence of truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise -- M.K.Gandhi
How in sync you are with people, things, or just the space around you will decide how smoothly you function in the world. -- Sadhguru
When people are alone, they become spiritual. When in company, they become religious. -- Sadhguru
Irritation, anger, hate, and rage are just progressions. If you feel the mildest sense of irritation, that's what you need to work on. -- Sadhguru
There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing that we say to Death: Not Today!
Death is something that happens only once in our lives. It is important that we conduct it well. -- Sadhguru
Aquamation (alkaline hydrolysis) - eco friendly burial method (green burial) - The body is heated and immersed in a mixture of water & pottasium hydroxide for a few hours (3-4 hours approx) (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)
The power of a god (or religion) is directly proportional to the strength of her believers
The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to be stymied by meanings of any sort. -- Sadhguru
Better the devil you know
When you do not know what to choose, show total involvement in everything. Then life will choose, and it is never wrong. -- Sadhguru
Time is slipping away for all of us at the same pace. You cannot manage time, but you can manage your energy. --Sadhguru
I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity -- Aaron Swartz
For compulsiveness, there is only one cure -- consciousness. There is simply no other way. -- Sadhguru
Atheists and theists are the same kind of people, pretending to be different. Both of them believe something they do not know. -- Sadhguru
Do not get into patterns of life. The little things you do every day, the way you think, feel, understand, and act -- do it a little differently today. See how it feels. -- Sadhguru
The more you know about something, the better you can handle it. The more you know about Yourself, the better you can handle Yourself. This is called self-realization. -- Sadhguru
You cannot rise in love, you cannot fly in love, you cannot stand in love -- you have to fall in love. If you want to know the magic of emotion, something of you has to fall. -- Sadhguru
Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of Action of body and mind. -- Sadhguru
If you allow experiences of the past to overshadow your future, you are ensuring there is no future in your life, just recycling the past. - Sadhguru
Dhyanalinga is not to be worshipped -- it needs to be experienced. The linga is a doorway to the unlimited nature of existence. -- Sadhguru
No matter what life throws at you -- what you make out of it is up to you. -- Sadhguru
If you are concerned about the world, the first thing you need to do is transform yourself into a joyful being. --Sadhguru
Real friends don't make your troubles vanish. They are the ones who don't vanish when you have troubles.
Love and appreciate those who have always been there. You know who you are -- Jim Kwik
A situation becomes stressful only when you compulsively react to it. -- Sadhguru
The behavior you walk past is the behavior you accept.
Being on the spiritual path means understanding that the source of your trouble and the source of your wellbeing are within you. -- Sadhguru
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -- Leonardo Da Vinci
Who you are is your making. Once you understand this, at least you must make yourself to your own liking -- Sadhguru
Love is not an instrument of convenience. Love is a process of self-annihilation. -- Sadhguru
[Change] Faced with a choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof -- J.K. Galbraith
[Change] The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him -- Leo Tolstoy
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. -- Abraham Lincoln
The number of people who believe an idea is directly proportional to the number of times it has been repeated during the last year - even if the idea is false. -- Clear's Law of Recurrence
Spend as little time as possible talking about how other people are wrong. -- Tyler Cowen
Are you willing to not win in order to keep the conversation going? -- Tiago Forte
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. -- French Philosopher Voltaire
You shouldn't be committed to the way someone else wants you to be. You must be committed to the way you want to be. -- Sadhguru
Stillness is the highest level of intensity. When there is stillness within you, your body, mind, and energies will be exuberantly intense. -- Sadhguru
If you apply only your intellect, ignoring other aspects of intelligence, you will get confused about every little thing in life. -- Sadhguru
Life is just a slice of time. If one values life, one has to do everything at the right time. -- Sadhguru
If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original -- Ken Robinson
Did someone saysomething you don't agree with? Smile, nod, and move on to more important things.
Compulsiveness is like darkness -- you cannot fight with it. You have to turn on the light of consciousness. -- Sadhguru
No relationship is absolute -- it is always variable. You have to conduct it well on a daily basis. -- Sadhguru
Most people in the world are not busy -- they are just preoccupied. -- Sadhguru
The body is individual. The mind is individual. Consciousness cannot be individual -- it can only be inclusive. -- Sadhguru
Adapting to change is real freedom
Through discipline comes freedom -- Aristotle
Discipline does not mean control. It means having the sense to do exactly what is needed. -- Sadhguru
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility -- Sigmund Freud
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure -- Confucius
Right problem, Right time, Right way only counts
Fear arises simply because you are not living with life -- you are living in your mind. -- Sadhguru
The way you breathe is the way you think. The way you think is the way you breathe. -- Sadhguru
There is a great deal of human nature in people.-- Mark Twain
A strategy for thinking clearly: Rather than trying to be right, assume you are wrong and try to be less wrong.
Trying to be right has a tendency to devolve into protecting your beliefs.
Trying to be less wrong has a tendency to prompt more questions and intellectual humility.
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. --Moran Cerf
No secondary ideas, work on big problems. Secondary ideas waste time.
The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know -- Sadhguru
Unless you do the right things, right things will not happen to you.
Peace is not the highest goal in life. It is the most fundamental requirement. -- Sadhguru
Health is the most important thing. for people who are healthy there are so many goals but people who are not healthy has only one goal I.e to become healthy.
The whole art of being a Guru is just this: to constantly puncture people's ego and still manage to remain their friend. -- Sadhguru, The Meaning of a Guru - The Master's Role in One's Life
Your body adapts to what you eat.
Your mind adapts to what you consume.
Your soul adapts to what you love.
What you feed yourself today is who you become tomorrow. -- James Clear
Increasing your standards of happiness is a dangerous game. Instead of trying too hard to be happy, seek the truth.
"Those pursuing happiness may set high standards for their levels of happiness. When their happiness falls short of their standards - which is likely when the standards are high - the resulting disappointment and frustration impedes the experience of happiness." -- Paradoxical Effects of Pursuing Positive Emotion, Positive Emotion by Brett Q. Ford and Iris B. Mauss
If you gain a little more mastery over your mind, body, and life energies, you can become the master of your destiny. -- Sadhguru
Responsibility means being able to respond to the best of your ability to whatever situation you may face in your life. -- Sadhguru
Carpe diem - Seize the day
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle
Those who always know what's best are a universal pest. -- Piet Hein, a Danish scientist
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. -- Socrates
Just ask yourself -- what do you really want of life? That is the direction you should go. -- Sadhguru
It is important to simplify the material aspects of your life so that the deeper dimensions of who you are can find expression. -- Sadhguru
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
A mundane life goes from womb to tomb. A life of awareness leads to liberation from the very process of Life and Death. -- Sadhguru
Life is too short to stay stuck where you are, only to wonder "what if?".
Each day is a chance to move your life towards something more than it is now. Don't let inaction build up regret... of wasted time, energy and opportunities.
Thought and emotion are not separate entities. The way you think is the way you feel. -- Sadhguru
If you know wrong, you'll live wrong
Life is involvement. Where there is no involvement, there is no life. -- Sadhguru
Self-realization means to realize how foolish you have been. Everything has been right here within you and you did not get it. -- Sadhguru
Belief leads people to accept the most ridiculous things as the absolute truth. -- Sadhguru
If you are miserable when you are alone, you are obviously in bad company. -- Sadhguru
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian and writer. He and Hugh Laurie are the comic double act Fry and Laurie, who starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster
May I quote Stephen Fry.
Stephen Fry - If you are offended, well so fucking what
There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. -- Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh
You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits. -- Bhagavad Gita, chapter 2, verse 47
The basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself -- integrity of thought, emotion, and action. -- Sadhguru
Modern society is defined by an excess of opportunity. We have more information, more products, and more options than ever before.
As a result, curating, filtering, and refining are more important skills than ever before. Those who edit best will find the signal in the noise.
If you want to change your actions (and your life), simply change the way you look at life.
"Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing."
Suspicion is not Intelligent. In fact, the lower the level of intelligence, the more suspicious people are. -- Sadhguru
Repetition is cyclical. When you are going in circles, you are not going anywhere. -- Sadhguru
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
People resist change because they rather stick to the known devil than pursue the unknown angel. Familiarity breeds comfort and inertia. -- Sadhguru
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire
Truepeace is notthe absence of tension/violence; it is thepresenceof justice. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you keep the past alive within you, you will become dead to the present. -- Sadhguru
The more you realize the smallness of your existence, the larger will become your presence. -- Sadhguru
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
Intention is one thing, execution is another. In your life, will you execute what you intend, or will you let things happen to you accidentally, is the big question. -- Sadhguru
Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.
The conclusions that you make in your mind can seriously impede your ability to experience life. -- Sadhguru
You see, but you do not observe. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
For a committed person, there is no such thing as failure -- just lessons to be learnt on the way. -- Sadhguru
"Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does."
The biggest issue with human beings is they do not know how to handle their thoughts and emotions. -- Sadhguru
It is very hard to predict, especially the future. -Niels Bohr
Smartness is only socially valuable. Intelligence is the way of nature. -- Sadhguru
Up and down. That's how you can describe real life in three words
Using people and loving things -- this is a complete misunderstanding of life. Things are for use. People are for love. -- Sadhguru
Learning to live joyfully with things you do not like is a huge lesson in life. -- Sadhguru
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away -- Philip K. Dick
Life itself is reason enough to celebrate. -- Sadhguru
Getting stuck is the rule, not the exception.
There is only one problem on the planet -- a few nasty human beings. Everything else here is fantastic. -- Sadhguru
Long-term thinking is a secret weapon
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. -- Carl Sagan
Outsiders are not the problem, the urge to create outsiders are the problem -- Melinda Gates
If you are willing, every moment of your life can be a fantastic experience. Just Inhalation and Exhalation can be a tremendous love affair. -- Sadhguru
What you do is up to you, but you must do it consciously. That is what it means to be human. -- Sadhguru
The Dynamism of Life and the Stillness of Death are needed to be complete. Living Death is the nature of Existence. -- Sadhguru
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
Choose better inputs. Get better outputs.
Do not try to destroy the enemy. Destroy the enmity. -- Sadhguru
Some, not all! Often, not Always! Mostly, but rarely Never!
Teachings and philosophies cannot transform anyone -- they can only inspire. -- Sadhguru
When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary. -- Sadhguru
Creation is sound. The source of creation is Stillness. -- Sadhguru
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot ofit. -- Seneca
Study as if you know nothing.
Work as if you can solve anything.
Do not aspire to meet a wonderful person. Aspire to become the wonderful person that you expect others to be. -- Sadhguru
If you do not know how to handle yourself, then you are handling everything else only by accident. -- Sadhguru
According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.-- Leon C. Megginson
Ultimately, the only way to truly be in control of your life is to be in control of your thoughts.
"When you say no, you are only saying no to one option. When you say yes, you are saying no to every other option.
No is a choice. Yes is a responsibility."
The more you become conscious of your actions, the more you gain control over what happens within you and, to a large extent, around you. -- Sadhguru
Concentration produces wealth. Diversification protects wealth.
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things. -- Stephen Covey
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. -- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
If you are constantly facing new situations, it means you are living a life of growth and great possibilities. -- Sadhguru
The person who asks is a fool for five minutes, but the person who does not ask remains a fool forever.
If you compulsively react, external situations determine how you are right now. If you consciously respond, your wellbeing is very much in your hands. -- Sadhguru
Life is a limited amount of time and energy. Let this be used for maximum impact. -- Sadhguru
If you are a little playful with life, every moment is a celebration. -- Sadhguru
Sex in the body is fine. Money in the pocket is fine. They only become a problem if they enter your mind. -- Sadhguru
Do not wait for problems to overwhelm you. Take action before problems come. Preemption is the Path to Safety and Success. -- Sadhguru
If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become immense. That is the beauty of being human. -- Sadhguru
Rest is the basis of all activity. Stillness is the basis of all Dynamism -- Sadhguru
The universe was neither created nor destroyed. It would just BE. -- Stephen Hawking
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."- H. P. Lovecraft
One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence.It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. Translation: "Don't do things you aren't good at." -- Peter Drucker
Fear is simply because you are not living life -- you are living in your mind. -- Sadhguru
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
There is no greater fulfillment than to touch and transform lives. -- Sadhguru
If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better. -- Lindsay Buckingham
Destiny is not a fixed destination -- it is what you create. -- Sadhguru
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Grace Hopper
"Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life." --
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
"When you lose track of time, you are either living your best life or wasting it."
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein
"Intelligence is learning from one's mistake, wisdom is learning from others mistake"
"Learn steadily rather than short burst for longevity." - Andrew Ng
The majority is always wrong. The minority is rarely right. -- Henrik Ibsen
If everybody is thinking alike, then no one is thinking --Ben Franklin
"Avoid Boring People." Three words, two meanings. The trope is a reminder to (1) stay away from people who aren't interesting and (2) to be interesting and avoid boring people when you're speaking with them.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
If you gain enough mastery over yourself and determine the nature of your experience of life, you can also largely determine when and how you shall die. -- Sadhguru
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. -- Sent-ts'an, C. 700 C.E.
The ability to ask beautiful questions is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered.
A Joyful Face is always a Beautiful Face. -- Sadhguru
Most topics are not worth having an opinion about.
"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. Stick to the good plan."-John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing -- Socrates
If you don't look back at your past self from a year ago and feel ashamed, you aren't progressing enough
It is all right if the world thinks you are weird. Everyone is different, so everyone is weird in someone's eyes. Happily weird or miserably weird -- your choice. -- Sadhguru
If someone else thinks you are smart, it is okay. It is their opinion. If you think you are smart, it means you are stupid -- Sadhguru
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country -- Michel de Montaigne, "Of Cannibals"
"Vision is the bottleneck of talent.
Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It's not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction.
There are many capable people in the world, but relatively few that focus on what matters."
It takes inspiration and activity to the point of insanity to create something truly worthwhile for everyone. -- Sadhguru
"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom." -- Gary Schubert & Cliff Stoll
Being human means to consciously do the best you can for everyone and everything you come in touch with. -- Sadhguru
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
"Be the person you needed when you were younger." -- Ayesha Siddiqi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What's the endgame? I guess it's that you live long enough to die of something else first.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.--Aristotle
"To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance.
To simplify after you understand the details is genius."
"A 5-step process for nearly anything:
- Explore widely. Find out what is possible.
- Test cheaply. Run small, quick experiments. Sample things.
- Edit ruthlessly. Focus on the best. Cut everything else.
- Repeat what works. Don't quit on a good idea.
- Return to 1."
One who does not know ease is naturally in a state of dis-ease.
Reading can teach you the best of what others already know.
Reflection can teach you the best of what only you can know.
"The math of success...
Results = (Hard Work*Time)^Strategy
Working hard is important, but working on the right thing is more important. A great strategy can deliver exponential results.
Of course, the best strategy is worth nothing if you never get to work. Zero to the millionth power is still zero."
Keep a check on how much of you and your activity is conscious or unconscious. Self-audit is self-transformation. -- Sadhguru
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." -- Ayn Rand
power of states, gods, and money: they are all mere myths that hold value only because we, collectively, decided to believe in them.
Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.
Time is not money. Time is life.
Waste isn't waste until we waste it. -- will.i.am
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic" --John F. Kennedy
You are never a prophet in your own land -- Obama
"Successes are revised mistakes."
"Amazing social skills are a superpower.
The ability to deliver bad news in a good way is a superpower.
The ability to de-escalate a tense situation into a calm one is a superpower.
The ability to transform a lose/win situation into a win/win situation is a superpower."
To forgive does not mean to forget. To forgive means not to carry any bitterness in you, because that destroys your life -- Sadhguru
The most important conversation is the conversation you have with yourself each day.
Every story has a happy ending, you just need to know when to stop.
If you are looking at life as a possibility, you will see possibilities everywhere. If you are looking at life as a problem, you will see problems everywhere. -- Sadhguru
Your life is a limited amount of time. Only miserable people think it is long. If you are joyful and well, even if you live for a hundred years, it is too little. -- Sadhguru
If you want to enjoy stillness, you must be super alert. Deathlike stillness is of no value. When you become super alert but Still, possibilities open up. -- Sadhguru
Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking.
Solve big problems early.
Rebound after one missed workout, not a decade of inactivity.
Repair a strained relationship the next day, not years later.
Fix overspending before it becomes a lifestyle.
Problems with simple solutions at first become difficult to unwind over time
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time -- Leo Tolstoy
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude -- Zig Ziglar
Everything that happens in the material world is essentially a certain kind of wave. If you are a good sailor, every wave is a possibility. -- Sadhguru
"Where to focus:
For the beginner, execution.
For the intermediate, strategy.
For the expert, mindset."
What is mastery? At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.
"If you do not work on important problems, how can you expect to do important work?"
We have everything for the men's need, but not for men's greed -- Mahatma Gandhi
Eat till the point you are hungry and do not overeat. And you should leave at the point when people ask why are you leaving, rather than stay till people ask why don't you leave
If you live joyfully until the last moment, you do not have to worry about death -- that will also be a joyful process. -- Sadhguru
If you want to have deep insights into life, other people's opinion of you should not mean anything to you. -- Sadhguru
The joy of being one with everything will never be known to a person who is clinging to something or the other. -- Sadhguru
Whatever you have to do right now, do it with absolute involvement. Only then will you know the sweetness of what it means to be conscious. -- Sadhguru
Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
"Clarity is the elimination of mental clutter.
Agility is the elimination of physical clutter.
Tranquility is the elimination of spiritual clutter."
"School requires you to learn about things after the answer has already been decided.
Life requires you to learn about things while the answer is in the process of being decided."
If you are feeling really pleasant and wonderful, you will have no issues with anyone.
Once you are flexible, you are willing to listen; not just to someone's talk -- you are willing to listen to life.
Especially if unpleasant things have happened in your life, you should become wise, not wounded.
You can attract luck simply by sharing your work publicly.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. -- Alan Turing
If you can create the climate you want in your mind, emotions, and body, then your health, joy, and wellbeing will be taken care of. -- Sadhguru
Life is not a drama that is happening around you. Life is that fundamental dimension that is You. -- Sadhguru
The fundamental nature of jealousy and envy is a feeling of inadequacy. If you were really blissful, you would not be envious of anyone. -- Sadhguru
"An approach that has worked well for me: Friendly, but persistent."
"People generally have more control over their actions than their feelings.
But we can influence our feelings by taking action.
Take one small step. Move the body first and the mind will follow."
"There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained when we give them to others. Give it away to get it back."
"Repetition unlocks value.
The value of your first workout increases the more you exercise.
The value of your first article increases the more you write.
The value of your first conversation increases the longer you stay in the relationship.
Day One continues to compound."
"New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do.
And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome.
For this reason, your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results."
"Some things are better off ignored than attacked.
Attention is the oxygen of conflict. When you fight a problem, you breathe life into it. When you starve a problem of your attention, you suffocate it.
In a surprising number of cases, the way to solve a problem is to ignore it."
"Everything good needs time. Don't do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way. Time means power for your work. Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly."
A seed that does not sprout is as good as a pebble. For the divine seed that you are to flourish, you have to open up. -- Sadhguru
People who excel tend to obsess over the details.
People who struggle also tend to obsess over the details.
The difference is what details they focus on. Minutiae vs polish.
Most things don't matter - but when it does, you want to get the details right.
Do the people around me act the way I wish to act?
Language shapes thought, Thought shapes language
"Always be prepared to absorb a big hit.
Always be focused enough to create a big win.
Diversified enough to survive, concentrated enough to matter."
Nobody is rooting for you to fail.
You may succeed. You may fail. But, for the most part, nobody cares one way or the other.
This is good. The world is big and you are small, which means you can chase your dreams with little worry for what people think.
If you want to find a better path, you have to be willing to explore a different path.
That sounds simple, but how often do you try something different?
The more you create, the more powerful you become.
The more you consume, the more powerful others become.
A good teacher does not teach facts, he or she teaches enthusiasm, open-mindedness and values.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Do less. Keep returning to one thing and continue to refine it.
Stoic philosophers -- "paradox of happiness": To attain happiness, we must not try to attain it."
Nearly everything in life is unfavorable once it grows to a certain size.
It is entirely possible to have too many clients, too much work, too much fame, too much free time, and so on.
Pay attention to when the thing you're chasing exceeds its usefulness.
The strategies that made you successful in the past will, at some point, reach their limit.
Don't let your previous choices set your future ceiling. The willingness to try new ideas allows you to keep advancing.
"Fasting focuses the mind - it replaces all desires with a single desire."
Your time is better spent championing good ideas than tearing down bad ones.
The best thing that can happen to a bad idea is that it is forgotten. The best thing that can happen to a good idea is that it is shared.
Feed the good ideas and let bad ideas die of starvation.
"It's better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people.
It's better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn't matter.
It's better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain."
Mental toughness immediately increases when you find the right subject. You're more likely to stick with things when you're genuinely interested.
Every great opportunity has many reasons why it could fail. You have to trust your ability to solve problems along the way.
People who look for reasons why things won't work, struggle to take action.
People who look for reasons why things will work - and solve problems as they arise - make things happen
Awareness is not a virtue in and of itself, not without a moral imperative -- Imani Perry
When in doubt, just say thank you. There is no downside. Are you honestly worried about showing too much gratitude to the people in your life?
Three simple ways to get more of what you want in life:
- Be kind and pleasant to others.
- Ask for what you want.
- Follow up.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.
Someone else living a good life does not prevent you from living a good life.
There are many ways to win and plenty of space.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
You are the average of your five closest friends. On the internet, you're a composite of all the shit you read and watch. Choose wisely.
The difference between good and great is often an extra round of revision.
The person who looks things over a second time will appear smarter or more talented, but actually is just polishing things a bit more.
Take the time to get it right. Revise it one extra time.
If you educate a man, you educate one man, but if you educate a woman you educate whole family and whole society
Knowledge, like other elements of life, should have no ownership. Therefore, high quality education should be made accessible to anyone and everyone without any financial obligations.
There is a high correlation between the amount of money you spend and amount of carbon you release, so more money you spend, the more carbon you release
An expert is someone who, over many years, manages to remain confident enough to keep trying and humble enough to keep learning
You have no responsibility to live up to someone else's expectation of you.
Spend as little time as possible chasing other people's preferences instead of your own.
Slowing down enables you to act in a high quality way.
Kind rather than curt. Polished rather than sloppy.
It's hard to be thoughtful when you're in a rush.
Life rarely changes in a positive way without an increase in responsibility.
That can mean taking ownership of your health or committing to a relationship or starting a business.
Whatever it is, if you want the trajectory to change, the amount of responsibility usually has to change.
"It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert as long as you're on the path.
If a beginner is on the path, all they need is time.
If an expert is off the path, they won't be an expert for long."
"Good advice at the wrong time is bad advice.
Life is full of seasons and each season has different requirements.
Know what season you are in, and you can better identify which ideas to utilize."
"The longer you're a teacher, the less you remember what it is like to be a student.
The longer you're a doctor, the less you remember what it is like to be a patient.
The longer you're a coach, the less you remember what it is like to be a player.
Change positions. A new perspective can improve your old methods."
We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
Everybody just uses everybody else to get what they want
How old would you be, if you don't know how old you are?
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. -- Nelson Mandela
Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking.
You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.
Time will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy
I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it -- George Bernard Shaw
"The more precisely you define the problem, the more easily you can find a solution.
"I feel bad" can have a million causes.
"I didn't sleep much last night and I haven't exercised in a week" has a very straightforward answer."
Be like electricity, no one knows the importance of it until it goes away
You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain." -- batman
You are as good as your work, degree doesn't matter
The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn't matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well
Nearly everything in life has a useful zone, a desired dose. Ten minutes in the sun can energize you. Ten hours in the sun can burn you. This concept applies to many things: work, relationships, hobbies, exercise, food.
What is your desired dose? What do you need right now? A little bit more or a little bit less?
To understand what is coming at you, you will need to learn what came before you
Smile because it confuses people
All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there. -- Charlie Munger
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prisio, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence. -- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
For those who expect everything, there are many curses.
For those who appreciate everything, there are many blessings.
Money is not the only way to improve life. Instead of widening your margin of profit, widen your margin of leisure. Instead of optimizing for money, optimize for time. Instead of seeking efficiency, seek recovery.
Many good opportunities are ruined for the dream of slightly better ones.
Would you have a more successful career if you had taken that other job or moved cities? Possibly. But your actual career will definitely suffer if you don't commit to doing it to the best of your ability.
Would you be 10% happier in a different relationship? Maybe. Maybe not. But you'll definitely be unhappy in the one you have if you spend all day thinking about what else is out there.
The surefire way to end up worse off is to agonize over unchosen options and fail to make the most of the one you selected. Every minute spent yearning for your unlived lives is a moment you can't invest in the one you actually have.
Choices matter, but so does your level of commitment.
I strongly believe that the only way to encourage innovation is to give it to the young. The young have a great advantage in that they are ignorant. Because I think ignorance in science is very important. If you're like me and you know too much you can't try new things. I always work in fields of which I'm totally ignorant.
Don't react to toxic people. Not giving them a reaction when they desperately seek it, is far more powerful
Quality of life is having the freedom to make choices that are not fear based. Whether it's the ability to choose the kinds of projects I want to take on and can learn from, or the ability to take a month off to travel. Freedom to choose is the ultimate luxury.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, -- Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -- Max Planck
You could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! -- Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. -- Marguerite de Valois
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it - Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard P. Feynman
Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Ordinary always feel threatened by outstanding.
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features -- Leon Uris
Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we've held our own being with great compassion - Tara Brach
All of us live in a bubble which we incorrectly perceive as "normal"
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. -- Maya Angelou
A man always has two reasons for doing anything, A good reason and the real reason -- J.P. Morgan
The flame that burns twice as bright, burns half as long
A belief is not dangerous until it turns absolute
We are just a chemical scum on a medium-sized planet, orbiting an average star in an ordinary galaxy in one of many universes
The 5 core principles of life | Nobel Prize-winner Paul Nurse - YouTube
Aristotle
Think about time as divided into the past, the present and the future and then think for a while about what the present is, how thick is the present? The present is just the limit between the past and the future.
And then you get the paradox.
Because the past is something that does not exist, it has existed but it doesn't exist any longer. The future is something that does not exist, it will exist, but it doesn't exist. And the present is nothing - so the present seems to be a nothing dividing something non-existent from something non-existent.
Don't hate the players hate the game
Comparison is the thief of joy
First step is being informed, second step to inform others who are willing to listen..
Don't be scared be prepared
Humans have opened gates to the hell
God has given us 2 ears and 1 mouth, so you must use those in proportion i.e. 2/3rd listen 1/3 talk
If you kill a killer the number of killers in the world remains the same.
I have never said most of the things I said -- Yogi berra
Ignoring the little harsh things in life can make your life easier
People stop laughing as they grow old. How to laugh?
Never do for others what they can do for themselves
Don't do unto others what you don't want them to do unto you
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is -- Yogi bera That's why you've gotta learn by doing.
Broken clock is also right twice a day.
He gave me abuses; I didn't take them. So the abuses remained with him. -- Gautam Buddha
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.” - Clayton Christensen
A tool is as powerful as a person wielding it. The tool is only as effective as the skilfulness of the hands that wield it. A tool is only as good as the person using it.
90 90 rule - when you think you are done with 90% of tasks, you are left with 90% of tasks
दूध का जला छाछ भी फूंक कर पीता हैं। का अर्थ है “ एक बार धोखा खाने पर अत्यधिक सावधान होना।”
“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler
Show me the incentives, I will show you the outcome — Charlie Munger
Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battlefield -- Ravish Kumar
This planet has everything for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed. -- Mahatma Gandhi