“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
 
– Mark Twain.

Placing photos of diseased lungs makes smokers anxious and the best way to deal with anxiety, for a smoker, is to reach for another cigarette 

Fitting in is more important than being right 

Therefore to create is not only the most natural of things but also perhaps the closest to divinity we come in this life.

“What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings … we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes. “— Michio Kaku

The currency of life isn’t money, it’s time.

Seeking people’s approval is poverty. It makes you a prisoner.

Do what you love, fight for what you love.

All You Need to Know

Here are four subtle signs you might be more anxious than you realize:

    Constant busyness
    Trying to find meaning in everything
    Black and white thinking
    Procrastination

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

— William Faulkner

An ice cube walks into a bar and asks for a whiskey.
- bartender
 Ice ?
John 

One of the laws of resistance is that the more that we avoid something, the greater the resistance becomes. Therefore, every time we put something off, the more difficult it becomes to do.

The best climber in the world is the one who's having the most fun.

the turbo handbook

the piña collider

"Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much."

Source: The Need for Roots​

Happiness is simply the absence of desire... Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure (which is joy or satisfaction), but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state.

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"The brilliance of the stars would be invisible without the vast darkness of space behind them.

Do not wish away the difficult portions of life. They provide the contrast needed to appreciate the joyful moments."

Find your watermelon 🍉

“If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

Is this project pulling me in or am I pushing it forward? Is this relationship pulling me in or am I pushing it forward? 

To know how to wait and stay grounded is, I think, part of living well. To wait with appreciation for the process, and to tend to the process with appreciation.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci 

People follow incentives, not advice.

“3 R's of Habit Change” 

1. Reminder (the trigger that initiates the behavior)
2. Routine (the behavior itself; the action you take)
3. Reward (the benefit you gain from doing the behavior)

If you plant the right seed in the right spot, it will grow without further
coaxing. I believe this is the best metaphor for creating habits

As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of programs: those simple enough to obviously have no bugs, and those complicated enough to have no obvious bugs. 

“Me: Please let me sleep!

Brain: Nope, we have to stay up together and go over every bad life decision we have made so far.”

— Anonymous

Being human is a condition that requires a little anesthesia