"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Inspirational Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Doe Quotes

“No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.”
“He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.”
“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]”
“Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.”
“As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I think I had some existential frustration and I was wrestling with that on a few different levels. I was feeling like I wanted to change a lot of things.”
“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

Source : Xunzi (1994). “Xunzi: Books 7-16”, p.81, Stanford University Press
“You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.”
“It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.”

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