If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
The Insulted and Humiliated // Fyodor Dostoyevsky
MIND
MIND: Sifting
You have been offered “the gift of crisis.” As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is “to sift,” as in, to shake out the excesses and leave only what’s important. That’s what crises do. They shake things up until we are forced to hold on to only what matters most. The rest falls away.
Carry On, Warrior // Glennon Melton
MIND: Upgrade
Whether it’s our routines or our relationships, it’s our responsibility to actively and continuously make them the way we want them to be.
The Miracle Morning // Hal Elrod
MIND: Écrivain
That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect.
You can’t control life, at least you can control your version.
Stranger Than Fiction // Chuck Palahniuk
MIND: Azul
Scientific studies suggest that only about 25 percent of how long we live is dictated by genes, according to famous studies of Danish twins. The other 75 percent is determined by our lifestyles and the everyday choices we make.
The Blue Zones // Dan Buettner
MIND: Intentional
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to “be happy.” But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.”
Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
Man’s Search for Meaning // Viktor E. Frankl
MIND: Push
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
// Jack Kerouac
MIND: Equitable
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Meditations // Marcus Aurelius
MIND: Hindsight
those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.
// Charles Bukowski
MIND: Polarity
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow?
I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul // C.G. Jung
