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Time.

The most precious resource — and how to use it wisely.

“Failure is the greatest opportunity I have to know who I really am.”

“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

“If you rewire the unconscious mechanisms that maintain you with assumptions derived from something you know to be unreal, then your meaningful instinct will take you places you should not go, in proportion to its corruption. There is little more terrifying than the possibility that you could come to a crisis point in your life when you need every faculty you possess, at that moment, to make the decision properly, only to find you have pathologized yourself with deceit and can no longer rely on your own judgment. Good luck to you, because nothing but luck will then serve to save you.”

Jordan Peterson

“Spend sufficient time confirming the need, and the need will disappear.”

“If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.”

Sydney J. Harris

“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

Michel de Montaigne

“When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.”

“He that knows nothing knows enough if he knows how to be silent.”

Italian proverbs

“One today is worth ten tomorrows.”

German proverbs

“He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.”

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

“Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat.”

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.”

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”

“When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

“Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.”

James Dillet Freeman

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Albert Einstein

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

“Sometimes the things that break your heart end up fixing your vision.”

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”

Frederick Matthias Alexander

“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.”

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”

Abraham Lincoln

“You've made mistakes in the past, you will probably make more in future, and that is okay.”

“The future depends on what you do.”

“Don't let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experience.”

“There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.”

“Gratitude makes sweet miracles of small moments.”

“There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.”

Alexandre Dumas

“It's ok to be not ready to move on. Healing takes time.”

“Stop beating yourself up for the past mistakes. You deserve your forgiveness.”

“Sometimes what you don't do is just as important as what you do.”

“God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?”

William Arthur Ward

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”

Charles Bukowski

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

“If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.”

Christopher Walken

“You have to let go of the past to make room for the future.”

“Sometimes the destination is worth all the troubles you endure along the way.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”