Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers from what he fears. – Michel de Montaigne
The emotions you avoid will control you, the emotions you face will free you. – Mark Manson
You worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. – David Foster Wallace
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. – Madame de Stael
All sins are attempts to fill voids. True virtue lies in the recognition and acceptance of one’s own emptiness, without desperately trying to fill it. – Simone Weil
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. – Carl Rogers
The more we fight who we are, the more stuck we end up becoming. – Carl Rogers
Genius is nothing more than childhood recovered at will. – Charles Baudelaire
You can’t be a life-changing presence to some people without being a complete joke and embarrasment to others. – Mark Manson
Learning more is a smart persons favorite form of procrastination. – Mark Manson
The highest reward for a persons toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. – John Ruskin
What you do is what you become.
Ecellence is not an aspiration, excellence is the next five minutes. – Tom Peters
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play. – Miles Davis
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit oneself to – what is most deeply meaningful. True liberty exists not in escape, but in purposeful engagement. – Nikolay Berdayaev
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
