Thoughts & Reflections

Doris Lessing Motivational Quotes of the Day (RSS) "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. ~ Oscar Wilde #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

Jennifer Lopez Quote of the day - A-Z Quotes (RSS) "Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

Swallow the impulse to offend, even if the other person seems weak. The satisfaction is meager compared to the danger that someday he or she will be in a position to hurt you. ~ Robert Greene #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

Most of us are trained to watch the forward gap—the gap between where you are now and where you want to be... But there’s a problem here. If you’re chasing the forward gap, the chase will never end. No matter how good life gets, you’ll always be chasing the next idea on the horizon. And just like the actual horizon, you can’t catch it. It will always remain ahead of you. Tying happiness to the attainment of some future goal is like trying to catch up to the horizon. It’s always going to be one step beyond your reach.” ~ Vishen Lakhiani #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

"What does your conscience say? – ‘You shall become the person you are’.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

“Anyone who has not groomed his life in general towards some definite end cannot possibly arrange his individual actions properly. It is impossible to put the pieces together if you do not have in your head the idea of the whole… The bowman must first know what he is aiming at: then he has to prepare hand, bow, bowstring, arrow and his drill to that end. Our projects go astray because they are not addressed to a target. No wind is right for a seaman who has no predetermined harbour.” ~ Michel de Montaigne #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ~ Rumi #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

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. ~ Rumi #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

“In an increasingly unpredictable world moving ever more quickly, a detailed map may lead you deep into the woods at an unnecessarily high cost. A good compass, though, will always take you where you need to go. It doesn’t mean that you should start your journey without any idea where you’re going. What it does mean is understanding that while the path to your goal may not be straight, you’ll finish faster and more efficiently than you would have if you had trudged along a preplanned route" ~ Jeff Howe #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

“In short, avoiding what makes you anxious leads you to restrict your activities, which makes your anxiety generalize, which then prompts more avoidance, which in turn promotes more generalized anxiety, which stirs up even more avoidance. As you can see, it becomes a vicious cycle. The key to taming your amygdala is to break this vicious cycle. You must make sure that you expose yourself to what you were fearful of in the past. By keeping your behavioral options open to anxiety - provoking experiences, you allow yourself to be flexible and resilient in changing situations. By exposing yourself to what made you anxious in the past, you can learn to recondition yourself and habituate to the situation.” ~ John B. Arden #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.” ~ James Allen, As a Man Thinketh #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

We are deeply conditioned to see people through the lens of pure good and evil. We feel justified in punishing criminals because we attribute their behavior to sinister motives. The case that what we sometimes call evil is rarely a case of malicious intent. More often, harmful behaviors result from a lack of self-regulation skills, and weak “willpower muscles.” If we could cultivate greater self-control in ourselves and others, many of our individual and societal issues would vanish. #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

Are you doing enough with your life? Did you get enough done today? Have you optimized every minute of your time for maximum effectiveness? Productivity hacks are everywhere today, and along with them come the assumption that time not spent actively chasing a goal is time wasted. The abilities to know, manage, and direct ourselves are our fundamental life skills. Living, being, and experiencing, are our ultimate occupations - everything else is secondary. #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~ Goethe #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

"You see what a victory costs. The blood of our enemies is still the blood of men. The true glory is to spare it." ~ Louis XV to Louis Ferdinand following the Battle of Fontenoy #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ

Do not Waste Influence Great confidence should not be used for trivial matters; doing so is a waste of a good thing. The sheet anchor should only be used at the very end. What remains after you have used up the great for minor ends? Nothing is more valuable than a protector, and nothing is more expensive than a favour nowadays. It has the power to create or destroy the entire world. It can both give and take away sense. Because Nature and Fame favour the wise, Luck is generally envious of them. It is thus more important to maintain the favour of the powerful than goods and chattels. #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ 🌝 @Maxims_and_Reflections 🌚

Do not Waste Influence Great confidence should not be used for trivial matters; doing so is a waste of a good thing. The sheet anchor should only be used at the very end. What remains after you have used up the great for minor ends? Nothing is more valuable than a protector, and nothing is more expensive than a favour nowadays. It has the power to create or destroy the entire world. It can both give and take away sense. Because Nature and Fame favour the wise, Luck is generally envious of them. It is thus more important to maintain the favour of the powerful than goods and chattels. #Reflect #Ponder ♡ ㅤ  ⌲ 📢 🔊 ˡᶦᵏᵉ ˢʰᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ 🌝 @Maxims_and_Reflections 🌚