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“One fact of reality that is often overlooked and certainly unappreciated is that it isn’t just who you are that matters, but how you are perceived by others. You may be a very warm and thoughtful person who is quite competent, but if you fail to communicate that effectively to others, then you will fall short of what you would otherwise be capable of achieving.”

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

Bette Davis

“Many yearn for a place and time where no problems exist to be solved, no suffering exists to be endured, and no tears need be wiped away. I am not one of those people. I should not, on that account, be misconstrued as a sadist or masochist as I never welcome or intentionally cause suffering. Rather, I believe that such things are part of what makes us human, and we would not be human without them. Their counterparts, problem solving, compassion, succor and the like are some of the most...

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.”

Simone Weil

“In work, the greatest satisfaction lies – the satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been done only by using your unique apparatus. This is really the center of life, and those who never orient themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever know.”

Kenneth Alsop

“A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

Aldous Huxley

“Nothing but your best is good enough.”

Elbert Hubbard

“Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, the become self-forged chains.”

Helen G. Douglas

“It has been claimed that there are three types of people. Average people talk about things (the weather, sports, etc.). Below average people talk about others (celebrities, gossip, etc.). Above average people talk about ideas (philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc.). What type of person are you?”

“What Thoreau was referring to in the quote: "Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense?" has been labelled ‘brain rot’ and is basically a suppression of one’s innate instincts for curiosity and wonder and instead resigning ourselves to the ‘unreflective’ habits we observe all around us -- habits of fitting in, getting by, chasing profits, chatting about the latest news.”

“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself.”

Lao Tzu

“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.”

Dag Hammarskjold

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

Nietzsche

“They say the best explanation for the ‘good old days’ is a poor memory.”

“Of all the problems that plague the human race, at least in the west, financial problems are probably the easiest to solve. However, it never feels that way when we're dealing with them.”

“Only man (as far as we know) is capable of comprehending his own mortality and realizing that one day he will be no more. This sobering realization explains why we do many of the things we do and choose to believe many of the things we do.”

“All things supernatural, and especially religion were created by man primarily to deal with uncertainty and the fear of death.”

“One of if not the greatest achievement of mankind is language. While other primates communicate, no other species has the highly complex and nuanced language of humans. This has enabled us to retain and pass on enormous amount of knowledge to our descendants and thus over time knowledge accumulates and future generations can build upon what was bequeathed to them.”

“A difficulty raiseth the spirits of a great man.” George Savile

“Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart