Low expectations are the secret to happiness

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“work-life harmony.” I love this term. Work-life balance sounds as if it is a constant struggle. Harmony as if it is a continuous state of flow

the same way i look at you and see the past i wish you could look at me and see the future. Look past the tardiness and there is a lot to learn

dream realm

temporal

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” —Aldous Huxley

Full body workout is when you develop a product on your own and have to deal with every aspect of it

Instead of trying to be the noun, do the verb.

The 5 Whys

the super mario effect. focus on the princess not the pits

Fall forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnzAVRZ9Xc

As Elie Wiesel wrote, “The opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s indifference.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching” ― Gerard Way

Tengo escalofríos.

I’m committed to doing the best that I can in this new world, and I will face the storm like a badass buffalo.

The subtle communication through whitespace

If you can slay the dragon you can have the princess. in order to get to something good, more favorable or preferable to you you need go through something unpleasant or something you would reluctantly do

Flip the narrative

if you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them

In this business it takes time to be really good — and by that time, you’re obsolete.

You Don’t Have to Know Everything. You Just Have to Know Where to Find It. - Einstein

Work like a captain, party like a pirate 🎉

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions

The secret is to give it one more time, one more push, all the time, every day, every moment.

refuse to stay down. Get up, and keep moving.

“Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.” — Warren Buffet

they don’t know how to outline their information in a way that leads to further revelation. ~ Elon musk

The brass teapot

the only thing constant is change

Software Is Like Cathedrals: First, We Build Them — Then We Pray

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you

Your greatest gift lies next to your deepest wound

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.” — Stephen R. Covey

Happiness is the fuel towards your goals, not the reward for achieving them.

Dostoyevsky once said: The thought once occurred to me that if one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, one at which the most fearsome murderer would tremble, shrinking from it in advance, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.

As the body moves your mind grooves.

When in doubt, zoom out!

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.” — Groucho Marx

The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.

The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over again and expecting different results.

For many of us, music fills the void of the words we are too afraid to say.

“knowing tomato is a fruit is being knowledgeable, not putting it on the fruit salad is wisdom”

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm...

hedgehog's dilemma

Write the opposite of a suicide note — a note about why I decided to keep living today.

Scars are tattoos with better stories

Gratitude is when you take a moment to pause and appreciate the breathtaking view.

A man who knows how to be alone, can conquer the world

As for how to write bug-free code? Just don’t call them bugs.

“Why was six afraid? Because seven ‘eight’ nine?”

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. “— Saint Augustine

Ernest Hemingway once said, “Write drunk; edit sober”.

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ― Robert Frost

It makes no difference if it's alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, or sugar. They're all drugs. In effect you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's all about moderation.

When you say “yes” to others, make sure you are not saying “no” to yourself.

An idea becomes pornographic when the idea of doing it is weighted more heavily than actually accomplishing what the goal or value sets out to accomplish.

“Hate is a second-order effect of repressed pain, and identity is the second-order effect of an unhealed self.” by Zat Rana https://link.medium.com/ipoLzvZEX0

The hardest thing about moving forward is letting go who you are now

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Seuss

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think -- Edwin Schlossberg

We are so deeply enmeshed in the mental state of “wanting,” we cannot shift to a state of “having.”

To teach is to learn twice — Joseph Joubert

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Everything you want is on the other side of fear

Big challenges don’t trip us up. Little petty annoyances cumulatively throw our lives off-balance. Office politics at work, your commute, errands, meaningless news, gossip, tiny bouts of envy, social media, so it goes.

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” — Charles Bukowski