Zitate der Woche:
2023
#1
„Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows morning and evening reach farther than their daily steps. We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.“
– Henry David Thoreau
#2
„Expect small problems. Life is full of compromises, and it’s necessary to let small bad things happen if you want to get huge good things done. There is no escape. Prevent all problems and get nothing done, or accept an allowable level of small problems and focus on the big things.“
– Tim Ferriss
2022
#1
„Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.“
– Buddha
#2
„The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that ist doesn’t matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well.“
– Chris Ballas
#3
„In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.“
– Shane Parrish
#4
„Always show appreciation. What’s taken for granted will eventually be taken away.„
– Dau Voire
#5
„One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.„
– Brian Tracy
#6
„In the pursuit of MORE we overlook the fullness and completeness that are already within us waiting to be discovered.„
– Lynne Twist
#7
„You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story.„
– Matt Haig
#8
„It’s a mystery to me. We have a greed, with which we have agreed. And you think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all you won’t be free. Society, you’re a crazy breed!“
– Eddie Vedder
#9
„Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, till we come to a hard bottom, which we can call reality.“
– Henry David Thoreau
#10
„So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind […].“
– Chris McCandless in Into the Wild
#11
„Life is too short to get bogged down and be discouraged. You have to keep moving. You have to keep going. Put one foot in front of the other, smile and just keep on rolling.„
– Kobe Bryant
2021
#1
„Everybody knows they’re going to die but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.“
– Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays with Morrie
#2
„Fear of failure is higher when you’re not working on the problem. If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome.“
– James Clear
#3
„There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.“
– Elon Musk
#4
„Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.“
– Pablo Picasso
#5
„When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.“
– The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
#6
„Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.“
– The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
#7
„Just do it scared – A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.“
– John A. Shedd
#8
„[…] For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.“
– Viktor E. Frankl
#9
„Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.“
– Otto von Bismarck
