Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
Epictetus
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Bertrand Russell
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anaïs Nin
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
C.G. Jung
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
Stephen R. Covey
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
L.M. Montgomery
“It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.”
Kristin Armstrong
“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”
Audrey Hepburn
“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
Albert Einstein
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
Viggo Mortensen
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
David Allen
“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
Irvin D. Yalom
