“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Wherever your center lies, know it, name it, stick to it, and believe in it.

being shy was merely thinking of oneself, rather than wanting to make other people happy.

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” ―Robert Greene, Mastery

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

    The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

    ― Carl Jung

Most people struggling emotionally don’t want someone to fix their pain, they went to feel understood.

Reverse empathy: rather than putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, try to remember a time when you wore the same shoe

People enslave what they fear the most 

that is called the pursuit of ignorance :) not searching for answers but searching for the right questions to ask that will lead to better questions

Be more present.

How?

    Stop looking at your damn phone

    Turn off all notifications

    Quit multitasking

    Don’t listen to podcasts when you walk

    Spend more time in nature

    Travel more

    Do things with actual meaning

    Work less hours

    Hang around less negative people that light your time on fire

“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
— Frank Outlaw

Do the weirdest thing that feels right.

Water never complains, but always pushes back. Always. 

“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.