Life-changing ideas and insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you will desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
When you’re trying to make a big change or transform an old habit, look for a small way to practice self-control that strengthens your willpower, but doesn’t overwhelm it completely.
Away with the world’s opinion of you—it’s always unsettled and divided.
The ability to simplify means eliminating the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.