Food for Thought (3)

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111. Maturity begins when you can be proven wrong without feeling like you’ve lost.

112. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

113. Speak only if it improves silence.

114. This too shall pass.

115. Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

116. Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

117. Remember, no matter how bad you have it, there are always millions of people having it worse than you.

118. Do what you have to do and let others do what they want to do.

119. The pain of regret is far worse than the pain of discipline.

120. If you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done.

121. Deal with the big while it’s still small.

122. Everything is difficult before it is easy. (Me: The opposite is also true.)

123. We either make ourselves happy or miserable, the amount of work is the same.

124. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

125. Success in 9 words: Do all the crap you don’t feel like doing.

126. There is one thing that 99 percent of “failures” and “successful” folks have in common – they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.

127. To be kind is more important than to be right.

128. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

129. Discipline equals Freedom.

130. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

131. Life isn’t about the vents that happen to me, it’s about my reaction to those events.

132. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude.

133. All the water in the Ocean can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside.

134. Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

135. Put your heart where your mouth is.

136. The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

137. Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.

138. We read quotes not to be better ourselves, but to better understand ourselves. (Me: it’s for both.)

139. We’re so busy watching out for what’s ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

140. As you go through life you will discover the world is governed by many rules, but the most important rules are the ones that come from within, the rules you place upon yourself.

141. We all make choices. But in the end, our choices make us.

142. The hardest thing to do is usually the right thing to do.

143. It’s always easier to stay out of a situation then get out of one.

144. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

145. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

146. Respond; don’t react. Listen; don’t talk. Think; don’t assume.

147. Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

148. Some things are not worth saying, some people are not worth questioning, some actions are not worth your reaction.

149. One moment of patience, in a moment of anger, can save a thousand moments of regret.

150. The true master is an eternal student.

151. Anger gives motivation without purpose.

152. If you have a problem, and then you spend a bunch of energy worrying and fretting about it, then you have two problems.

153. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

154. Are you having a bad day, or did you have a bad 5 minutes and are letting it ruin your whole day?

155. You can’t have a bad day with a good attitude and you can’t have a good day with a bad attitude.

156. A boat doesn’t sink because it’s in water, it sinks when it lets the water in.

157. We’re all stories in the end, just make it a good one.

158. It always seems impossible until it’s done.

159. Hardest choices require the strongest wills.

160. Your past doesn’t define you. It just gives you the starting point to who you’re going to be.

161. If you want something you’ve never had, then you need to do something you’ve never done.

162. Live life the hard way and it will become easier, try living life the easy way and it will crush you.

163. A true man’s strength lies with his gentleness.

164. Getting old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

165. With great power, comes great responsibility.

166. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to.

167. Always be kind to people. Not because they are, but because you are.

168. Violence is not strength and compassion is not weakness.

169. Life starts at the end of your comfort zone.

170. It’s better to ask stupid questions than make stupid mistakes.

171. People who never changed their mind never changed anything.

172. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.

173. You don’t notice your progress in life because you are always raising the bar.

174. Worrying only makes you suffer twice.

175. You train people how to treat you, unconsciously or not.

176. Your future is what you make it, so make it a good one.

177. Be curious, not judgmental.

178. Don’t let getting lonely make you reconnect with toxic people. You shouldn’t drink poison just because you’re thirsty.

179. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

180. The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

181. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

182. There is freedom of speech, but I can’t guarantee freedom after speech.

182. Thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become character, character becomes destiny.

183. When you’re going through Hell, keep going.

184. Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when you must do what must be done.

185. Pain is temporary, but regret is forever.

186. While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing.

187. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

188. Sometimes you will never realize the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

189. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

190. When you expect disappointment you can never get disappointed.

191. I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.

192. Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

193. Never underestimate the power of stupidity.

194. A wise man learns more from a foolish question, than a foolish man learns from a wise answer.

195. Don’t do something permanently stupid when you’re temporarily upset.

196. Measure twice, cut once.

197. There is a fine line between brave and stupid.

198. There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

199. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

200. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.