12 Quotes That Inspire Me

Hello friends,

In every issue, I use a number of quotes to help drive my point home. I have collected my favourite ones here in hope that you find something that inspires you.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. So trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity.

Khalil Gibran - The Prophet

The normal man bites off what he can chew and digest of life, and no more. Men are not built to be gods, to take in the whole world, they are built like other creatures, to take in the piece of ground in front of their noses. Only gods can take in the whole of creation because they alone can make sense of it, know what it is all about and for. But as soon as a man lifts his nose from the ground and starts sniffing at eternal problems like life and death, the meaning of a rose or a star cluster-then he is in trouble.

Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- Paulo Coelho

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

- Henry Ford

The boy reached through to the Soul of the World and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

- Paulo Cohelo - The Alchemist

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions

- T.S. Elliot

"and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law!"

Anton Svador Lavey - The Satanic Bible

"If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. If one break a man's bone, they shall break his bone. If one destroy the eye of a freeman or break the bone of a freeman he shall pay one gold mina. If one destroy the eye of a man's slave or break a bone of a man's slave he shall pay one-half his price."

The Code of Hammurabi - Law #196

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

- Bruce Lee

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

- Friedritch Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Rehearse them in your mind: exile, torture, war, shipwreck. All the terms of our human lot should be before our eyes.

- Seneca the Younger