This is a list of favourite quotes that have influenced my thinking.
How many ‘nos’ are there? Billions. And how many ‘yeses’? Just one.– Sergiu CELIBIDACHE
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.– Michael POLLAN
Where do you seek the spiritual? You seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become holy and sacred if mindfulness is there. With mindfulness and concentration, everything becomes spiritual.– Thích Nhất HẠNH
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.– ARISTOTLE
What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things. ... So when we are thwarted or upset or distressed, let us never blame someone else but rather ourselves, that is, our own judgments.– EPICTETUS
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.– Werner HEISENBERG
You're going to spend at least a third of your life working. It's important to find something that you really like to do ... The second part is, find something that not too many other people want to do so you can make pretty good money out it.– Eugene FAMA
When a wise person suffers, she asks herself, 'What can I do to be free from this suffering? Who can help me? What have I done to free myself from this suffering?'– Thích Nhất HẠNH
Follow your own path, whatever people say.– Karl MARX