#inspirationalquotesbookreviewed_ — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inspirationalquotesbookreviewed_, aggregated by home.social.
-
What nature requires
What nature requires is close by and easy to obtain. All that sweat is for superfluities. We wear out our fine clothes, grow old in army tents, hurl ourselves against foreign shores, and for what? Everything we need is already at hand. Anyone who is on good terms with poverty is rich.
~ Seneca, letter 4:10-11
slip:4a1559.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Perspective #Quotes #Seneca
-
Temptation
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
slip:4a1557.
#Snark #Quotes #OscarWilde #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_
-
Passions
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
~ Cicero
slip:4a1556.
#Cicero #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Passion #Quotes #ReasonAndRationality
-
Rowing
I am rowing toward the past. I am trying to squeeze out of each stroke a better image of myself, and I am trying to enlist the ghosts of history to help power the oars. I want them as friends, as comrades, as partners, as ancestors.
slip:4a1555.
#BarryStrauss #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Rowing
-
In an instant
No one has ever reached a point where the power fortune granted was greater than the risk. The sea is calm now, but do not trust it: The storm comes in an instant. Pleasure boats that were out all morning are sunk before the day is over.
~ Seneca
slip:4a1554.
-
Appetite
No man’s body is as strong as his appetites.
slip:4a1551.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #SelfAwareness #Tillotson
-
Persevere
Persevere in what you have begun; hurry as much as you can, so that you will have more time to enjoy a mind that is settled and made flawless. To be sure, you will have enjoyment even as you make it so; But there is quite another pleasure to be gained from the contemplation of an intellect that is spotlessly pure and right.
~ Seneca
slip:4a1549.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Seneca #Stoicism #ThoughtAndPhilosophy
-
Benefit
The one way to guarantee we don’t benefit from failure—to ensure it is a bad things—is to not learn from it. To continue to try the same things over and over (which is the definition of insanity for a reason). People fail in small ways all the time. But they don’t learn. They don’t listen. They don’t see the problems that failure exposes. It doesn’t make them better.
slip:4a1548.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #RyanHoliday #SelfImprovement
-
The ideal life
The race convinced me of what I had for some time suspected. For me, the ideal life is one that combines body and spirit, one that joins the intensely physical and the intensely intellectual. I would wither away without the exercise of the flesh.
slip:4a1547.
#BarryStrauss #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #PhysicalLiteracy #Quotes
-
Passion
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
slip:4a1546.
-
Tranquility
[Do not disquiet] yourself by running about from place to place. Thrashing around in that way indicates a mind in poor health. In my view, the first sign of a settled mind is that it can stay in one place and spend time with itself.
~ Seneca
slip:4a1544.
-
Persistence
Consider this mindset:
never in a hurry
never worried
never desperate
never stopping shortAs Epictetus once summarized his entire philosophy: Persist and resist. Persist in your efforts. Resist giving in to distraction, discouragement, or disorder.
slip:4a1543.
#Epictetus #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #RyanHoliday
-
Problems
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
slip:4a1542.
#AntoineDeSaintExupéry #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Technology
-
Future
The present moment was once the unimaginable future.
slip:4a1541.
-
First judgements
[R]eject the first judgements and the objections that spring out of them because those objections are so often rooted in fear. […] This is radically different from how we’ve been taught to act. Be realistic, we’re told. Listen to feedback. Play well with others. Compromise. Well, what if the “other” party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It’s this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back.
slip:4a1538.
-
Desperation
People are getting a little desperate. They might not show their best elements to you. You must never lower yourself to being a person you don’t like. There is no better time than now to have a moral and civic backbone. To have a moral and civic true north. This is a tremendous opportunity for you, a young person, to be heroic.
slip:4a1540.
#HenryRollins #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Values
-
Self-conceit
Peole who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
slip:4a1537.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #WilliamMakepeaceThackeray
-
Petty hazards
Anybody can rise to meet a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.
slip:4a1536.
-
Begin. Begin!
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin!
slip:4a1535.
#DonaldBarthelme #Initiative #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes
-
Language
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
slip:4a1532.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Language #RichardChenevixTrench
-
Theater
The truth is the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theater.
slip:4a1531.
#DavidFosterWallace #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Valor
-
Manual labor of the mind
Writing is essentially donkey work, manual labor of the mind. What makes it bearable are those moments (which sometimes can last for weeks, months) when the book takes over, takes on a life of its own, goes off in unexpected directions.
slip:4a1530.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #JohnGregoryDunne #OnWriting #Quotes
-
New ideas
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
slip:4a1529.
#Curiosity #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #OliverWendellBerry #Quotes
-
Be a reader
I’m not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I’m saying it helps.
slip:4a1528.
-
Missionaries
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
~ Chalmers
slip:4a1360.
#7ForSunday #Chalmers #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes
-
Boring
Somebody’s boring me—I think it’s me.
slip:4a1525.
#DylanThomas #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Snark
-
Precious
What is this little, agile, precious fire, this fluttering motion which we call the mind?
~ Prior
slip:4a1436.
#7ForSunday #BrainAndMind #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Prior #Quotes
-
Patience
Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.
~ Ram Dass
slip:4a1424.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #RamDass
-
Projection
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
~ Ram Dass
slip:4a1417.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #RamDass
-
Memento mori
We are all just walking each other home.
~ Ram Dass
slip:4a1410.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #RamDass
-
Experience
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
~ Ram Dass
slip:4a1403.
#7ForSunday #EmbodiedExperience #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #RamDass
-
Enlightened
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.
~ Ram Dass
slip:4a1394.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #RamDass
-
Job versus vocation
There is a huge difference between a job and vocation. A job is what we hold to earn money to meet economic demands. A vocation (from Latin vocatus, calling) is what we are called to do with our life’s energy. It is a requisite part of our individuation to feel that we are productive, and not responding to one’s calling can damage the soul.
slip:4a1480.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #JamesHollis #Quotes #Vocation
-
Violence
Gratuitous violence in argument betrays a conscious weakness of the cause, and is usually a signal of despair.
~ Junius
slip:4a1372.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Junius #Quotes
-
Thoughtful solitude
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict—girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
~ Percival
slip:4a1501.
#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Percival #Quotes #Solitude
-
Watch, quietly
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
slip:4a1332.
#7ForSunday #ExperienceAndLearning #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #THWhite
-
Possessions
You can’t have everything.
Where would you put it?
slip:4a1349.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Materialism #Quotes #Snark #StevenWright
-
Sea
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
slip:4a1399.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #JacquesYvesCousteau #Oceans #Quotes
-
The corrections
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.
slip:4a1505.
#ExperienceAndLearning #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #PeteSeeger #Quotes #Snark
-
Thinking
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; It is thinking that makes what we read ours.
slip:4a1409.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #JohnLocke #Quotes
-
Luck
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.
slip:4a1415.
#7ForSunday #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #MichaelLewis #Quotes
-
Listening
Sit at your desk and listen.
slip:4a1460.
#CalmTechnology #Creativity #Focus #FranzKafka #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes
-
The future
Science fiction has the capacity to inspire by setting the vision of a radically better future, and by making it clear that the future won’t happen unless we put in the work.
~ Dan Wang
slip:4a1470.
#7ForSunday #DanWang #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #ScienceFiction
-
The creative mind
The creative mind gets poisoned with the idea that your great work will be the result of getting serious. So many of my good ideas come from what looks like goofing off, wasting time. Art is play. There’s no way to tell what’s deep or shallow until you play with the idea.
slip:4a1524.
#7ForSunday #AustinKleon #Creativity #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Play #Quotes
-
Professionalism
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else. The ancient Spartans schooled themselves to regard the enemy, any enemy, as nameless and faceless. In other words, they believed that if they did their work, no force on Earth could stand against them.
slip:4a1517.
#BeingProfessional #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #StevenPressfield
-
Overcoming fear
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; Then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
slip:4a1512.
#BeingProfessional #Fear #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Resistance #StevenPressfield
-
The professional
In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If he did, he would not pursue it as a sideline, distinct from his “real” vocation. The professional loves it so much he dedicates his life to it. He commits full-time. That’s what I mean when I say turning Pro. Resistance hates it when we turn Pro.
slip:4a1507.
#BeingProfessional #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #StevenPressfield
-
Grandiose fantasies
Grandiose fantasies are a symptom of Resistance. They’re the sign of an amateur. The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not com, whatever they like.
slip:4a1502.
#BeingProfessional #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Resistance #StevenPressfield
-
Decide
Decide! There is nothing in the world so pitiable as an undecided man, who wavers between two feelings, hoping to reconcile them, and does not understand that nothing can unite them.
~ Goethe
slip:4a1462.
#DecisionFatigue #Goethe #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes
-
Who was listening
[…] so the Muse whispered in Beethoven’s ear. Maybe she hummed a few bars into a million other ears. But no one else heard her. Only Beethoven got it.
slip:4a1522.