For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lose & Gain
Tag: life
Explore. Dream. Discover
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
Time is Limited
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 other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
— Steve Jobs from 2005’s Stanford Commencement Speech
See the World from the Ground
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
— Oprah Winfrey
Believe & Trust
You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
— Mitch Albom in Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson