Quotes

last update: 2024-11-19

“But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep.” ― Robert frost, Stopping by woods

Frodo: “It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill Gollum when he had the chance.”

Gandalf: “Pity? It’s a pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.”

Frodo: “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”

Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides that of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

We only see what we know. ― Goethe

…therefore all change comes from unreasonable [people]. ― George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self- negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth, to flossing. ― Kevin Kelly

Live a good life. If there are gods, and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. ― Marcus Aurelius

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? ― Epicurus

At some point, the pain of not doing it becomes greater than the pain of doing it. ― Steven Pressfield , art of war

“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right, but is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“My life is the highest of values, too high to give up without a fight.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” ― Jack London

Also, learn something everyday that will help you fight poverty and keep you in sparkling health ― Marcus Aurelius

As our Island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of ignorance ― John A Wheeler

Cease to Hope and you will Cease to fear. ― Hecato of Rhodes.

Courage is intelligent endurance. ― Socrates

Don’t talk about giftedness, one can name all kinds of geniuses who were not very gifted. They acquired greatness, became geniuses. All of them had that diligent seriousness of a craftsman and worked tirelessly. ― Seneca, Moral letters to lucius.

experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happened to you ― Aldous Huxley

Failures do not matter success do ― Vinod Khosla,

Focus is about saying no, no and no ― Steve Jobs, Specific clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GD57UQg4X4 Full talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu8cDKOjiK4

Fools dare where angels fear to tread, and sometimes they win. ― Paul Graham

Give away pleasures, which cost one dear – they do one harm after they’re past and gone, not merely when they are in prospect. ― Seneca, The letters of a Stoic

Great things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ― Abraham Lincoln

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ― Frank herbert, Dune

look at that battle you are involved in you are caught in it. You are it. ― Jidda Krishnamurthi (quoted in moves that matter)

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains ― Jean Jacques Russo

Mortal have you been born, to mortals have you given birth. Reckon on everything and expect everything ― Seneca The Younger, A Senecan Praemeditio.

No day is a long one, for the man who is up and about! ― Seneca the younger

Not all success is your own making. Often you are just riding a wave that takes you up but will also take you down if you are not careful. ― https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21318704

Only the disciplined are free in life. If you are undisciplined you are a slave to your moods. ― Eliud Kipchoge

Our rosy predictions leave the anxious unprepared for the worst. ― Seneca.

Simplicity is difficult. It’s easy to make things complex.

Sometimes the place where you’re used to is not the place where you belong. You belong where you believe you belong ― “queen of katwe” movie

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ― Swami Vivekananda

The ability to stay calm during conflict is a superpower. ― naval Ravikant

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. ― Albert Einstein

The general tendency . . . moves in the direction of making the individual more and more dependent upon the achievements of people, but less and less dependent upon the personalities that lie behind them. ― Georg Simmel

The mind…can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ― John Milton

The opposite of play is not work, its depression ― Robert Sapolsky

The things that matter most can’t be copied:You can copy goals, you can’t copy discipline.You can copy ideas, you can’t copy execution. You can copy answers, you can’t copy understanding. You can copy thinking, you can’t copy thinking for yourself. ― Shane Parrish

there’s no moral precept that doesn’t have something inconvenient about it ― Denis Diderot

There’s something to be said about working towards achieving a goal without obsessing over how far you’re from it or how hopelessly you’re missing the mark each time Once you shut out the clamour of result and simply persevere, success is bound to be yours. ― Vishwanathan Anand

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Oscar Wilde

What a piece of work is a man, how Noble in reason, how infinite in faculties – Hamlet

What we do in life, echoes in eternity! - Maximus, Gladiator movie

Wisdom begins in wonder - Socrates

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ― Persian Poet Rumi

You Know something only once but you realize it multiple times ― Swapnil

Your life is ending, 1 minute at a time ― Fight Club

The never ending now - https://perell.com/essay/never-ending-now/