Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners.
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.
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