Vardhan

Quotes I Keep Coming Back To

Some are wise. Some are comforting. Some just punch you in the gut and say, “wake up.” These are the ones I’ve saved, reread, and sometimes needed more than I care to admit. There are more I have in my Notion Doc. I am sharing these for now.

“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."
— Winnie the 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 it’s done."
— Nelson Mandela
"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."
— TED Talk
"Use what talents you possess — the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
— Henry van Dyke
"Don't believe everything you think."
— Buddhist saying
"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.’"
— Mary Anne 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
"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 ol’ days before you actually left them."
— Andy, 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.’ Say ‘this is the first time I’m not.’"
"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."
— Viktor Frankl
"This too shall pass."
"Whoever fights, can lose. Whoever doesn’t fight, has already lost."
"Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast."
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."
— Maya Angelou
"Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but to never give love."
— Albert Camus
"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself..."
— Carl Jung
"We often suffer more in imagination than in reality."
"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life."
"The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding."
"Don’t try and fix the problems of the past in the present."
"If you don’t decide, the world will decide for you."
"How you spend your days is how you spend your life."
"Live a little."
"I have never been good at something I wasn’t interested in. There is no substitute for interest."
"How is this the best thing that has ever happened to me?"
"THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO TRY AND NOT GIVE UP NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. FAILURES DON’T TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT A PERSON, IT’S ABOUT WHAT YOU DO AFTER YOU FAIL THAT COUNTS AND MATTERS"
- my friend. thank you for this. you know who you are.
"Failure is the cost of admittance."
"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you."
"Great relationships are a giving contest."
"Actions express priority."
"When it is winter I feel like it will never be warm again and when it’s summer I feel like it will never be cold again."
"Never waste good weather."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."