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Worth knowing "stdout" of people.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do - now.
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practising for this, I was training for this.
Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impenetrable fortress.
No great thing is created suddenly, and more than a bunch of grapes of a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I will answer that there must be time. Lit it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
The trails you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast... and on day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer. He was ignorant of my other faults else he would not have mentioned these alone.
Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source.
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it.
Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands then a clenched fist.
If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single idea.
To believe in an ideal, is to be willing to betray it.
If you seek to aid everyone that suffers (...), you will only weaken yourself and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards ...
... recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles.
Plans are fragile things and life often dashes expectations to the ground.
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
PL: Ty nigdy nie czytasz. Tam jest wszystko napisane.
EN: You never read. Everything is written there.
PL: Mam taki plik...
EN: I have such a file...
Truth is singular. It's versions are misstruth.
Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness we birth our future.
The weak are meat and the strong do eat.
There is a natural order to this world and those who try to abandon it do not farewell.
What is an ocean but multitude of drops?
Rules are a poor substitute for actual thought.
Halfway between the black and gray
Is no place for a life to waste away
- TWRP
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbel
If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter.
- undefined
On lisp: Why write programs with small bugs when you could write programs with no bugs?
- Paul Graham
Bear: Do you think they'll see how beautiful everything is?
Goose: Sometimes, only sometimes, all the time would be too much, never would be too little, every now and then, they'll see it sometimes... and that will be enough.
- Bear and Goose at the End of Everything
If you know what you are going to do in advance than you won't do it.
- Frank Gehry
If I can't code this, I don't understand it.
- Phil Moriarty
Work at tortoise pace. Overtake the hares!
- Irek
"I've set the wedding date. I've not asked her out yet." - how software projects are managed.
- Venkat Subramaniam
All the best things in live lives on the other side of fear.