Quotes/Sayings/Aphorisms that will stick with me for LIFE ⚱️
By: Notes Manish Gvalani
Tags: Entrepreneurship, For Life, Read, Impact

I read, quite a lot. I feel blessed to have had a keen interest in reading , learning, absorbing stories, gaining new perspectives from people far and wide. This habit has saved a lot of my time from being misspent, a lot of money from being wasted and gifted me with lots of mental clarity to process situations and people.

In this pursuit of gorging volumes of books in the last 20 years, I have time to time come across some fantastic quotes/sayings that have impacted me profoundly. It’s stuck with me and is a part of my GO TO KIT when feeling overwhelmed and stuck.

Herein are few of the many #

If you could really accept that you weren’t ok, you could stop proving you were ok. If you could stop proving that you were ok, you could get that it was ok not to be ok. If you could get that it was ok not to be ok, you could get that you were ok the way you are. YOU’RE OK, GET IT !!! You don’t get to vote on the way it is. You already did. Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of Communication. Health is a function of Participation. Self Expression is a function of Responsibility. Life is a rip off when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it. Perfection is a state in which things are the way they are and are not the way they are not. As you can see , this universe is perfect. Don’t lie about it. It’s much easier to ride the horse in the direction he’s going. You don’t have to go looking for love, when it is where you come from. Security is mostly a Superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure of nothing at all. — Helen Keller Its not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement, and at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly. — Theodore Roosevelt I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “BRIEF CANDLE” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment , and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. — George Bernard Shaw For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. — Fr. Alfred D’Souza Out, Out Brief Candle ! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare To be nobody but yourself — in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight , and never stop fighting.. Does this sound dismal ? IT ISN’T . It’s the most wonderful life on Earth. — E.E. Cummings If you expect to see the final results of your work, you have not asked a BIG ENOUGH question. — I.F. Stone What is important in life is life , and not the result of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you come right down to it, all you have is your self. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing. — Pablo Picasso The difference between the artist and the non artist is that the artist never stops playing. — Alex Mozart Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time where there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of ; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. — Shearson/Lehman The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. Happiness, in the ancient noble version, means self fulfilment and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents god or luck or fate bestowed on them. — Leo Rosten If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility . — Kierkegaard There is no failure, except in longer trying. No Defeat, except from within. No insurmountable barrier, except our own inherent weakness of purpose . NEVER GIVE UP !! It is not for us to reason why, It is for us to do or die. The only thing about me is that I am an average, healthy human being. All the things I’ve been able to do, any human being, or any one, or you, could do equally well or better. I was able to accomplish what I did by refusing to be hooked on a game of life that had nothing to do with the way universe was going. I was just a throwaway who was willing to commit myself to what needed to be done. — Buckminster Fuller Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, and has you see what you don’t want to see so you can be who you have always known you could be. — Tom Landry Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us While We Live — Norman Cousins The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave. Only a person who takes risks is free. I didn’t come this far, only to come this far.

There are so many more in the toolkit. For now sharing with you what’s on top of the order. It’s deep but its the truth, for me and my life.

Hope you build your own. It’s the best toolkit to use when stuck, and trust me, you will be !!!