A couple of years ago I started writing down quotes, sentences, sayings, or just words that I felt were moving. Topics ranging from love to economics and war, certain lines and words stuck with me. These quotes have influenced my thinking, challenged my thoughts and beliefs, and clarified my mind -to say the least.
I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country, cultural, language, religion, etc. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future. A chance to break ancestral trauma and change history. - Ellie 2018
I share these quotes as I wonder if they spark a light in others as they do in me. Share your thoughts and feelings, I’m curious how similar or different we all are.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it -Aristotle
Anger feels better than sadness - it’s more powerful and feeds the ego - Molly Bloom
Old keys won’t unlock new doors therefore I’m not obliged to my old thoughts beliefs theories etc...
Love untested - give your love a test - give it your all for it to pass. Do your best before you predict it’s failure.
The image of things is a lot better and easier than the actuality of it - Ben Shapiro on Joe Rogan’s podcast
You literally can’t go to bed thinking your a bad person, so you rigorously justify your actions to make yourself feel better (subconsciously ) - Syuzanna 10-09-2020
Marriage is “pay before you go policy “ you’ll figure out if it’s worth it only years after you’ve entered it.
If you want to have a future you gotta get a past
The comfort of falling into patterns - Joe Rogan
Don’t compare your personal truth to everyone’s personal mask - Dr.Phil
Pain is a good motivator - Dr.Phil
When you do everything for children you don’t allow them to observe themselves and master their environment - which is where confidence comes from. - Dr.Phil
Democrats are for corporate law and republicans are for tribal - Roseanne Barr
Nature makes you change your place in the world. Gives you a different perspective
How much are you willing to give up your intellectual independence?
Jack of all trades, master of none
At some point you have to peel the bandaid off - it’s going to hurt for a second but that’s how the healing process works
You don’t hear about the planes that land - ppl focus on the negative and generalize based on that.
More habits less goals
People want to go protect their failures and that leads to comfort where there’s no growth
The more a man judges, the less he loves
It’s important to add perspective and color to everything
Don’t turn this place into the place you fled - Joe Rogan
If you don’t use your eggs they scramble
People hold on to things because of their ego, it’s hard to let go of something mainly because it’s perceived as “weakness”. It’s actually a very strong act.
We don’t witness all progression
“If they don’t learn the way you teach, you need to teach the way they learn “
Worry it’s like paying debt you don’t owe
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
Sometimes we like to think that our time is our home and sometimes we have a lot of it and too much of it that we don’t know what to do
Is it offensive to be an actual gender?
The gift that keeps giving - Lilo Brancato
Make memories that hold the power to move you
Love is the absence of judgement - Dalai Lama
Is this conversation productive ?
“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson
Between stimulus and response, there is space
The best is the enemy of the good
Inconvenient truths are not spoken about in a proper table
Crazy is pushing the boundaries of what people expect
Normal is a little less crazy - Aron Katz
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources -Lois Battle
The opposite of addiction is connection and purpose