Quotes

When I’m fortunate enough to find something that moves me, that makes me reconsider how I’m living or that I deeply connect to — I save it. Here I keep a curated collection of quotes which I’ve thought about for a long time.

Struggling to achieve dreams and goals

The impediment to action advances action, what stands in the way becomes the way. — Marcus Aurelius

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are, Lal. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own results. — Data, Star Trek The Next Generation S3E16.

Being in control

No man is free who is not master of himself — Epictetus

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

On anger

Somebody cuts you off in traffic. And worse, they flip you off. What does anger do about any of this? Who does it punish but you? Anger is not the right response. When the community is at risk, with justice at stake, we need our wits about us. It’s here that we need to be most controlled, most in command of all our faculties. We can be angered at what is happening, but we cannot afford to respond in anger. We need to be rational, strategic, patient, courageous, creative, as well as forgiving, empathetic, and nurturing. We need to bring our best to fight the worst. — Ryan Holliday

The importance of history

History is a compendium of all of the most incredible human mistakes ever made. It’s a compendium of human stupidity. There’s so much to learn from that. And to ignore that incredible wealth that’s sitting before you is, to me, kind of tragic. — Robert Greene