#wisdom

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#philosophical #wisdom #friendship

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#opposition #wisdom #courage

It takes courage to live, yes, but it takes true bravery to stand your ground in a world aligned against you. ↗

— Jake Bonsignore

#wisdom #courage

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#cool #fun #humor #inspirational #wisdom

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. ↗

— Paul Greengrass

#give #inspiring #painful #remembering #wisdom

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#ego #psychology #tibet #wisdom #death

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death. ↗

— Robert M. Price

#maturity #rebirth #wisdom #death

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like. ↗

— Os Guinness

#freedom #humanity #positive-freedom #truth #virtue

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #attitude