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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard

The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding.

 “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” - Werner Heisenberg


The Days Are Long, But the Years Are Short - Gretchen Rubin

“The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.” - William Arthur Ward


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die. - Blade Runner
From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue> 


"When you fill your day and you're busy, that busyness becomes an excuse that you use against doing the things that scare you"

From <https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/1597398432238518272> 


“You cannot overtake 15 cars when it’s sunny… but you can when it’s raining.” - Ayrton Senna, F1 driver

From <https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1597770925847416832> 



"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.


 “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” - Gustav Mahler

"If you are depressed, you are living in the Past. 
If you are anxious, living in the future. 
If you are at peace you are living in the moment" - Lao Tzu

We waste years because we cannot waste hours.


"This is not a place of honor… no highly commemorated deed is here" meme https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor/


Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.


"Why are you doing the work that you're doing?"
From <http://www.ted.com/talks/scott_dinsmore_how_to_find_work_you_love/transcript?language=en#t-137992> 

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say." -Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"

“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory"

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”  - Jack Canfield (author, speaker)


Nothing makes you feel more miserable than measuring yourself up to someone else and finding yourself lacking
From <https://medium.com/hi-my-name-is-jon/i-will-never-compare-my-life-to-yours-thats-why-i-m-happy-e9b916bf0ec> 


Deeply enjoying whatever it is you’re experiencing right now is the ultimate wealth.
From <https://hackernoon.com/multi-millionaire-at-27-what-i-learned-7df8153f5425> 


The meaning of life is problems. The process of trying to tackle and struggling with problems gives life meaning.


Parents lie to their children about the cruelties of the world, and children grow up to return the favor to their parents.
From <https://getpocket.com/explore/item/life-in-chains-finding-home-at-taco-bell-757809444> 




I want to know that when life has decided it has had enough of me, it’s gonna be because it is exhausted from trying to keep up.
From <https://medium.com/personal-growth/9-books-which-made-me-an-adult-and-1-you-should-read-anyway-d46cca50762a> 




"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Theodore Roosevelt


"Brick walls aren't there to stop you. They're a chance to show how badly you want something. They're there to stop other people who don't want it badly enough." - Randy Pausch's last lecture


[About relationships? Or risk…] 
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” - Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation 


To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
	- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (LIFE magazine mantra)



The reason many don't climb the ladder of success is that they're waiting for the elevator.
From <http://wisesayingsandpoems.tripod.com/t.htm> 





If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?


"There is no failure until you deem it to be so. This means even if you lose all your money, go bankrupt, lose your housing, suffer some major setback, or fall flat on your face, you have not failed. It is only one of the many, many mid-points toward your end goal. The only point you fail is when you give up – because that’s when the story ends."
From <http://personalexcellence.co/blog/steve-jobs/> 



“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt