Quotes About Perspective

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." –Terry Pratchett

Seeing as how nothing is outside the vast, wide-meshed net of heaven, who is there to say just how it is cast?" "I find good people good, and I find bad people good, if I am good enough.

Once you have enough for beans and rice and taking care of your family and a few other things, money is a story. You can tell yourself any story you want about money, and it's better to tell yourself a story about money that you can happily live with.

just like most nightmares, it's not that big a deal and is reversible.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you [should realize] that this is such a short and precious life, it is really important that you don't spend it being unhappy. There is no excuse for spending most of your life in misery.

Everyone is interesting. If you're ever bored in a conversation, the problem's with you, not the other person.

I had to get back to this place where you just want water, food, and shelter. All the craziness of my life—this Wall Street life I had taken on—would go away, would melt away.

Memento mori—remember that you're going to die. It's a great way to remember to live.

CHANGE YOUR WORDS, CHANGE YOUR WORLD

Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

I believe I'm below average. It's a deliberate, cultivated belief to compensate for our tendency to think we're above average.

When I'm old, how much would I be willing to pay to travel back in time and relive the moment that I'm experiencing right now?

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes." —MARCEL PROUST

El sufrimiento procede de tres patrones de pensamiento: pérdida, menos, nunca.»

Cuanto más deprisa te mueves, más lento pasa el tiempo y más vives.

Always ask: What am I missing? And listen to the answer.

GOOD QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN TACKLING INCUMBENT COMPANIES (OR IDEAS) "How is their bread buttered?" "What is it that they can't afford to say or think?

I was back in the prison of all of the things that hold me back, but I could see that the door was locked from the inside.

When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

I now often ask myself, "Is this really a problem I need to think my way out of? Or is it possible I just need to fix my biochemistry?" I've wasted a lot of time journaling on "problems" when I just needed to eat breakfast sooner, do 10 push-ups, or get an extra hour of sleep. Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.

Don't believe everything you think." –BJ Miller, MD

porque cuando te sientes agradecido, todos sabemos que no hay ira.

That's not a bug. It's a feature!