Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Don't panic.
Here are some quotes that have positively impacted my life (some of them are cheesy). I have a list of life philosophies as well, but I keep those private.
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
― Dale Carnegie
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you"
— Maya Angelou
"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just thought that we were having fun" - Pooh
"grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference"
"Everything you see around you was made by people no smarter than you" -Steve Jobs
"It always seems impossible until its done" - Nelson Mendela
"it is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult" - seneca
"the worst thing you can do is see a problem you can solve and do nothing about it"
"Use what talents you possess - the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
Henry van Dyke
Buddhist quote: Don't believe everything you think
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." - Terry Pratchett
"When seeking revenge dig two graves." - Confucius
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." -Maryann Radmacher
“There’s not a lot of things worth caring about.”
“Graveyards are full of irreplaceable people”.
"It's possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life."
—Captain Jean-Luc Picard
"I've had a lot of worries in my life. Most of which never happened." - Mark Twain.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
You train people how to treat you, unconsciously or not.
Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm.
“Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?”
Just because it's not your fault doesn't mean it's not your responsibility.
"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good 'ole days, before you’ve actually left them".
- Andy from The Office
Honesty without kindness is brutality.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity” - Hanlon’s Razor.
There are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on. -Led Zeppelin
“If you’re trying to break a habit, don’t say ‘this is the last time I’m doing it’ to yourself. Instead, say ‘this is the first time I’m not doing it’.”
Don't put off the important in favor of the urgent.
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way"-Viktor Frankl
“This too shall pass”
"Whoever fights, can lose. Whoever doesn't fight, has already lost".
“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.”
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. - Publilius Syrus
Despair is the failure of the imagination.
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. -Lou Brock