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2023

June 04

“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." -Grover Cleveland

May 28

“If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value." -John Adams

May 21

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to be left alone."-Henry David Thoreau

May 14

"If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information or take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me and will back them up in every way." -Executive Order 10631

May 07

“It’s funny. A lot of people say they’d like to be Michael Jordan for a day or for a week. But let them try to be Michael Jordan for a year. See if they like it… Let them see that it’s no fun.” -Michael Jordan

April 30

“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.” -John Muir

April 23

"For better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead America toward a new age. You have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age." -Lyndon B. Johnson

April 16

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort." -Theodore Roosevelt

April 09

“I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way.” -John McCain

April 02

"All the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters. Every single man in the army plays a vital role. So don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. What if every truck driver decided that he didn't like the whine of the shells and turned yellow and jumped headlong into a ditch? That cowardly bastard could say to himself, 'Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands.' What if every man said that? Where in the hell would we be then? No, thank God, Americans don't say that. Every man does his job. Every man is important." -George S. Patton

March 26

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent." -Barbara Bush

March 19

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right," -Thomas Paine

March 12

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” -Ernest Hemingway

March 05

"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation." -Coretta Scott King

February 27

"You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -Woodrow Wilson

February 19

"We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet." -Henry Ford

February 12

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." -Nathan Hale

February 05

“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

January 29

"Tragic fate has thrust upon us grave responsibilities. We must carry on. Our departed leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward. That is what he would want us to do. That is what America will do." -Harry S. Truman

January 22

“Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.” -Neil Strauss

January 15

“The more information that’s out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn’t what’s scarce; it’s the willingness to do something with it." -Tyler Cowen

January 08

"But after two years of this, I said to myself, "What have I done in the past twenty-four months?" And the answer was, "Little or nothing." I recognized that accomplishment requires isolation." -Nikola Tesla

January 01

"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance." -Jeanette Winterson

2022

December 25

“Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...” -E.A. Bucchianeri

December 18

"You can't pickpocket a naked man." -Ed Calderon

December 11

"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world." -Miyamoto Musashi

December 04

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

November 27

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” -Alphonse Karr

November 20

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” -Viktor Frankl

November 13

"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it." - Daniel Handler

November 06

"If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live." - John F. Kennedy

October 30

“Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren’t packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on.” - Marcus Aurelius

October 23

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” - Malala Yousafzai

October 16

"Nobody cares, work harder." - Cameron Hanes

October 09

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's." -Fyodor Dostoevsky

October 02

"It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day." - David Goggins

September 25

"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

September 18

“There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.” - Hugh Prather

September 11

“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.” - Stephen Covey

September 04

"No human being can know the future. The greatest of disasters may overtake a man in the best of places, and the greatest happiness may seek him out in the worst” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

August 28

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results." -James Clear

August 21

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” -Jim Rohn

August 14

"Man was made for conflict, not for rest." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

August 07

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

July 31

“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” - Miyamoto Musashi

July 24

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself." - Leo Tolstoy

July 18

"Washing one's hand of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire

July 10

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson

July 03

"Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate." - John Muir

June 26

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

June 19

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." Jan Austen

June 16

"It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed." - Thomas Moore

June 05

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions." - Ken Blanchard

May 29

“Today, each of us receives our own call. To service. To take a risk. To challenge the status quo. To run toward while others run away. To rise above our station. To do what people say is impossible.” - Ryan Holiday

May 22

"We suffer more from imagination than from reality." - Seneca

May 16

“Practice does not make perfect. It is practice, followed by a night of sleep, that leads to perfection.” - Matthew Walker

May 09

"In the long run, in the game of life, we all get paid by the hour." - Mr. Money Mustache

May 02

"No one is impressed more by your stuff than you are" - Morgan Housel

April 25

“Remember what Emerson said: “Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

April 17

“From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger

April 10

“The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.” - Jordan B. Peterson

April 04

"In our world, everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

March 27

“We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.” - Robert Greene

March 20

"Don't try to rush progress. Remember- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing" - Kara Goucher

March 13

"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer, He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

March 07

"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy." - Napoleon Bonaparte

February 27

"Money is in some respects, like fire. It is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master." - P.T. Barnum

February 20

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou

February 14

"To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be." - Tim Ferriss

February 06

"From afar, we admire talent. Up close, what counts most is character"-Adam Grant

February 03

"Unless a man is a master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little." -Teddy Roosevelt