QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Andy Grove 

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

Outcomes
Success

E. O. Wilson

“Humans have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”

Emotions
Spirituality

Joseph Campbell 

“Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.”

Perspective

John H. Johnson

“When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.”

Action
Business
Career
Energy
Success

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Poetry is news from the frontiers of consciousness.”

Writing

J. Krishnamurti 

It is not a measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Alignment
Health
Values

Yogananda 

Only the shallow man loses responsiveness to the woes of others’ lives, as he sinks into narrow suffering of his own.

Relationships
Values

David Servan-Schreiber 

Every life is difficult in its own way.

Perspective

Charles Darwin 

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.

Action

William James 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Emotions
Energy
Identity

Carl Jung 

It is not that something different is seen, but that one sees differently. It is as though the spatial act of seeing were changed by a new dimension.

Perspective

Grace Lee Boggs

“We are the leaders we’ve been looking for.”

Leadership

Pierre Janet

Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.

Identity

Gina Barreca

“If you don’t unpack your own emotional baggage it’s no longer baggage—it’s deadweight.”

Emotions

Moshe Feldenkrais 

You can’t do what you want till you know what you’re doing.

Success
Values

C.C. Chang, The Practice of Zen

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.

Perspective
Presence

Jiddu Krishnamurti 

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Presence

Carl Jung 

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Identity
Leadership

Terence McKenna 

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Mindfulness

Terence McKenna 

If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.

Outcomes

Terence McKenna 

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Responsibility

Randy McNamara

“You have to invent a future of possibility and extraordinary results. The brain won’t come up with that.” AND “Logic will always argue against action.”

Action
Outcomes
Success

David Cooperrider

WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OUR QUESTIONS CREATE.

Sam Keen

TO BE ON A QUEST IS NOTHING MORE OR LESS THAN TO BECOME AN ASKER OF QUESTIONS.

Jonas Salk

WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF AS THE MOMENT OF DISCOVERY IS REALLY THE DISCOVERY OF THE QUESTION.

Nancy Willard

ANSWERS ARE CLOSED ROOMS; AND QUESTIONS ARE OPEN DOORS THAT INVITE US IN.

Vanessa Redgrave

ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS IF YOU’RE GOING TO FIND THE RIGHT ANSWERS.

Unknown

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not the purpose of a ship. 

Purpose

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Walker Percy

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

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