A list of quotes put together by jacobnordby
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Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Everything solid was first an idea.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Live the life you've dreamed.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
The true mark of an educated mind is to be able to conjure new ideas from a swarm of knowledge.
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
I see so many people focusing profoundly on the future, hoping they are destined for greatness, and missing all the goodness that is left merely a blur in their peripheral visions.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.