I enjoy collecting impactful quotes and share three each month in my newsletter.
Here is a selection of my favourites:
Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so - Shakespeare
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life - it goes on. - Robert Frost
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. - Steve Furtick
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Oscar Wilde
It’s not how well you play the game, it’s deciding what game you want to play. - Kwame Appiah
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’ ― Shannon L. Alder
The palest ink is clearer than the fondest memory - Chinese Proverb
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. - Montesquieu
The information we consume matters just as much as the food we put in our body. It affects our thinking, our behaviour, how we understand our place in the world. And how we understand others. — Evan Williams
If you’ve got enough money to solve the problem, you don’t have the problem. - Dan Sullivan
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control. - Naval Ravikant