I have a thing for philosophy and psychology, always surfing through means to learn more. Below are some thought-provoking bits I have gathered this while.
You need no title to be a leader.
Optimistic
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Don’t lose yourself on your way to the top
Jack Welch
Hopeful
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
Reflective
There can be no true freedom and consequently no genuine culture in a world which is half bond and half free, half fed and half starved, were exploitation and social injustices flourish side by side with pious expressions of good intentions and high-sounding policies.
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
A man has but one youth, and considering the consequences of employing that well, he has reason to think himself very rich, for that gone, all the wealth in the world will not purchase another
– Sir R. North, On the Study of the Laws
One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do. Do it now.
Paula Coelho, The Alchemist
Let’s tell the truth to people. When people ask, ‘How are you?’ have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don’t want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are
Anais Nin
Being rich is having money. Being healthy is having time.
Margaret Bonanno
The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it's true but whether it empowers us. Truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is Utility.
Doing something you love on a schedule you can’t control can feel the same as doing something you hate.
Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Empathic
The human heart… tells us that we are more alike than we are unlike.
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter