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- Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
- Salma Hayek
- Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.
- Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
- It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.
- Lisa Williams, Bloggers In Love, SXSW 2006
- No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
- I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford University commencement address, June 12, 2005
- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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