“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." - Steve Jobs

Pick your battles.

Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure. ... Failure leads to maturity; maturity leads to success.

• Steven Brust (from Jhereg)

I took an introduction to nursing class in high school where we had to know the names of all the bones, the chambers of the heart, CPR, etc. During one particular topic, one of the students kinda snapped and exclaimed "I'm too stupid for this!" The teacher, a badass ER nurse who was a single mom, rode a Harley, and had seen everything from electrocuted flesh to years-old bed sores, simply said "Good. That means you're learning."

I work with special needs kids, and whenever they complain about feeling stupid, I pass along that wisdom, but in a bit nicer way: "You're not stupid, you're just learning."

From citizen Kane:

"It's easy to make a lot of money, if all you want is a lot of money"

Or something to that effect. Think about that line often

“You judge yourself by your intentions, but judge others by their actions”

This has helped me with my procrastination and helping to understand co-workers and people in general. Life gets busy and we always mean do get to things, but it’s really on what we actually do and complete that is real.

"Good things come to those who wait". It has been true so many times in my life.

“He has no friends” - Dad

“If God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful.”

Once is never, twice is always.

Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?

Basically at any given moment, any from a random assortment of Simpsons quotes. Right now it’s “but when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory?”

"Think for yourself and question authority." It's on a TOOL album.

It's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. - Marcus Aurelius

"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future"

The life of a punctual man is a hell of undeserved loneliness

I read this in a book when I was 15 and I've never been on time since

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Buddha

It is by doing whatever that one becomes whoever.

"Love is the only rational act." -Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.

„Old habits die hard“

&

"Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong."

• Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away

"If you are racist, I will attack you with the North"