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• Will I not walk in the footsteps of my predecessors? I will indeed use the ancient roadbut if I find another route that is more direct and has fewer ups and downs, I will stake out that one. Those who advanced these doctrines before us are not our…

  Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 33.11

• Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not within our power are our body, our property, reputation, office, and, in a word,…

  Epictetus in the Enchiridion 1.1 - Manual for a good life

• Without our arrogance and firearms and dominion, we're just another flavor of meat.

  Doug Peacock

• A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it

  Agent Kay, Men in Black

• Ciúnas Gan Uaigneas

  Gaelic for quietness without loneliness

• Life is like this. It’s uncertain. It’s uncomfortable. It doesn’t really care whether we really want or need something. It doesn’t care about us at all, really. It just is.

  Ryan Holiday

• You could be good today. But instead, you choose tomorrow.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Well begun is half done

  Anonymous

• Go to what will teach you the most, not what will pay the most.

  Anonymous

• Competition is for losers.

  Peter Thiel

• love is best spelled T-I-M-E

  Anonymous

• Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

• Don’t worry spiders, I keep house, Casually.

  Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828)

• ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  ascii artist

• The overestimation of technology is closely connected with the underestimation of humans.

  Jaron Lanier

• The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.

  E. O. Wilson

• If it cannot be measured, it does not exist

  Anonymous

• It’s not hope that drives us into action, it’s action that drives us into hope

  Rebecca Solnit

• One of the penalties of an ecological education is to live alone in a world of wounds

  Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac