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#1

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: existentialism, failure, inspirational

795 likes

#2

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: empowerment, marcus-aurelius, mind, philosophy, self-improvement, stoicism, thoughts

280 likes

#3

“Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I窶况e got窶琶s this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

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#4

“Warriors are not born, and they are not made...Warriors create themselves through trial and error, pain and suffering, and their ability to conquer their own faults.”
― Unknown

tags: inspirational, personal-development, pushing-through, self-improvement, warrior

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#5

“You窶决e not obligated to win. You窶决e obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
― Jason Mraz

tags: failure, inspirational, life, success, truth, winning

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#6

“The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain.”
― Seneca

tags: inspirational, pain, perseverance

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#7

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

tags: danger, fearlessness, pain, perseverance

1248 likes

#8

“The strongest people aren窶冲 always the people who win, but the people who don窶冲 give up when they lose”
― Liam Payne

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#9

“And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: life

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#10

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
― Chief Seattle

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#11

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Marcus Aurelius

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#12

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

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#13

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

tags: failure, perseverance

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#14

“The problem nowadays is that, by and large, we do a pretty bad job of picking role models. We glorify actors, singers, athletes, and generic 窶彡elebrities,窶� only to be disappointed when窶廃redictably窶琶t turns out that their excellence at reciting, singing, playing basketball, or racking up Facebook likes and Twitter followers has pretty much nothing to do with their moral fiber.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, How to Be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living

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#15

“above all, we need to be cognizant of what our integrity is worth: if we decide to sell it, it shouldn窶冲 be for cheap. It is hard to read those words and not think about political scandals and corruption, but perhaps the cleanup should start closer to home, with our own behavior, our own too-often-unacknowledged propensity to compromise principles for the sake of convenience, our lack of courage when it is called for, our mostly theoretical sense of justice, our often flaunted temperance, and our own manifestly very limited wisdom in managing whatever life happens to throw at us.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

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#16

“What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?

Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?”
― Epictetus, The Discourses

tags: motivational, philosophy

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#17

“It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophy-of-life, stoicism

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#18

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

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#19

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise

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#20

“1. Accept everything just the way it is.
2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
3. Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
4. Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
5. Be detached from desire your whole life long.
6. Do not regret what you have done.
7. Never be jealous.
8. Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
9. Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
10. Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
11. In all things have no preferences.
12. Be indifferent to where you live.
13. Do not pursue the taste of good food.
14. Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
15. Do not act following customary beliefs.
16. Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
17. Do not fear death.
18. Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
19. Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
20. You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
21. Never stray from the Way.”
― Miyamoto Musashi

tags: ascetic-life, buddhism, taoism

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#21

“For the Stoics, however, the near impossibility of becoming a sage is not a problem. They talk about sages primarily so they will have a model to guide them in their practice of Stoicism. The sage is a target for them to aim at, even though they will probably fail to hit it. The sage, in other words, is to Stoicism as Buddha is to Buddhism. Most Buddhists can never hope to become as enlightened as Buddha, but nevertheless, reflecting on Buddha's perfection can help them gain a degree of enlightenment.”
― William B. Irvine, Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

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#22

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adversity, affliction, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, austerity, be-determined, be-persistent, be-tenacious, carry-on, challenge, challenges, continue, deprivation, destitution, determination, difficult, difficulties, dire-straits, distress, doggedness, dream, dreamer, dreamers, endurance, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, firmness, follow-through, funny, give-up, go-on, go-the-distance, hammer-away, hang-in-there, hang-on, hardship, hardships, hilarious, hold-on, humor, humorous, humour, impecuniousness, indefatigability, inspiration, inspire, intransigence, joke, jokes, keep-at-it, keep-going, keep-on, leave-no-stone-unturned, mental-strength, mentally-strong, misery, misfortune, motivate, motivation, need, neediness, never-give-up, not-take-no-for-an-answer, obduracy, obstinacy, pain, patience, penury, perseverance, persevere, persist, persistence, pertinacity, plod-on, plug-away, poverty, press-ahead, press-on, privation, problem, problems, purposefulness, quotations, quotes, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, satire, soldier-on, stamina, stand-fast, stand-firm, startup, startups, staunchness, stay-the-course, staying-power, steadfastness, stick-it-out, stoic, stoicism, stoics, stop-at-nothing, strength, strength-of-purpose, strong, struggle-on, stubbornness, suffer, suffering, tenacity, tirelessness, travails, trial, trials, trials-and-tribulations, tribulation, tribulations, trouble, venture-capitalist, venture-capitalists, want, wretchedness

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#23

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, courage, fear

7216 likes

#24

“For I am not everlasting, but a human being, a part of the whole as an hour is a part of the day. Like an hour I must come, and like an hour pass away.”
― Epictetus, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

tags: epictetus, life, stoicism

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#25

“If you consider yourself a victim, you are not going to have a good life; if, however, you refuse to think of yourself as a victim窶琶f you refuse to let your inner self be conquered by your external circumstances窶輩ou are likely to have a good life, no matter what turn your external circumstances take. (In particular, the Stoics thought it possible for a person to retain his tranquility despite being punished for attempting to reform the society in which he lived.)”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

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#26

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

16397 likes

#27

“Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

tags: stoicism

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#28

“To live content with small means.

To seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion.

To be worthy not respectable,
and wealthy not rich.

To study hard, think quietly, talk gently,
act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes,
and sages with open heart, to bear all
cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions,
hurry never.

In a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.”
― William Henry Channing

265 likes

#29

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

1760 likes

#30

“Those who courageously choose to confront extreme hardships perceive their experience differently than others. They have the ability to envision something beyond the difficulties they encounter. Perhaps a glimmer of hope? Or perhaps another form of adversity? The truth is that the only way to know what lies ahead is by continuing onward.”
― Shonjuk Chakma

tags: endeavor, knowledge, moving-forward, philosophy, stoic, stoicism, strive, struggle, truth, wisdom

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