#erm

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#life #life

If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#opportunities #success #life

Life is difficult. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#life #living #mentation #purpose #purposeful

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key." (Already Gone) ↗

— The Eagles

#self-determination #life

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#life #life

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#superman #will-to-power #life

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker] ↗

— Winston Churchill

#life

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#effort #life #purpose #quality-of-life #reason

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#determinism #free-will #time #life

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing. ↗

— Amelia E. Barr

#despair #determination #failure #hindrances #life