Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Neil Degrasse TysonRead
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"
There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
Science is simply common sense at its best.
History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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