Life inspiration

Life is not only about work. It is not even about having fun all the time: try eating day after day the same dish and sooner more than later you will end up hating it. Motivation is what sits behind the curtrains and pulls the strings of our daily actions. However motivation is like a fragile plant that needs daily care. This page is a small collection of different resources, helpful tids and bits to refresh motivation and perhaps provide a different perspective on daily life. Sometimes we cannot change what happens, and yet we always have control on how we see it.

Inspiration

• Steve Jobs’ speech at Stanford
• Pale blue dot speech by Carl Sagan

Reflection

• An old philosopher faces his own death

Quotes

Collections of quotes that I like and find inspiring :)

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.” ― Seneca

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” ― Seneca

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ― Seneca

“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.” ― Warren Buffett

“When they say you can’t, they show you their limits, not yours.” – Kevin Keenoo

“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” – Zig Ziglar

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” – Confucius

“A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – William G.T. Shedd

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” ― Martin Luther King

“Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.” — Andy Benoit

“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” — Albert Allen Bartlett

“What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than for what they possess in common with others.” — Aristotle

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein

“Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.” – Alan Kay.