Lao Tzu
- Mastering Yourself
If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Mark Manson - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Travel
Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another society can live with entirely different values and still function and not hate themselves. This exposure to different cultural values and metrics then forces you to reexamine what seems obvious in your own life and to consider that perhaps it's not necessarily the best way to live.
Helen Fielding
- Bridget Jones" Diary
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.
Jose Saramago
- from "Blindness"
You never know beforehand what people are capable of. You have to wait, give it time. It's time that rules. Time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand. We have to guess the winning cards of life. Our lives.
