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söndag 27 augusti 2017

Best quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opened up my eyes for Cicero quotes.. I like these..

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child." Marcus Tullius Cicero

6:40 “I’m really following a very key idea of the greatest lawyer of antiquity Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero is famous for saying “A man who doesn’t know what happened before he’s born goes through life like a child”. That is a very correct idea of Cicero and he’s right. To ridicule somebody so foolish as not to know what happened before he was born. But if you generalize Cicero as I think one should there all this other things that you should know in addition to history. And those other things are the big ideas and all the other disciplines. And it doesn’t help you just to know them enough so you can prattle them back on an exam and get an A. You have to learn these things in such a way that they are a mental lattice work in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. If you do that I solemnly promise you that one day you’ll be walking down the street and look to your right and left and you’ll think my heavenly days I’m now one of the few most competent people of my whole age cohort.” – Charlie Munger, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EMkanyz5Y

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." Marcus Tullius Cicero

fredag 8 april 2016

Good Quotes from Abraham Maslow.

Good Quotes from Abraham Maslow.

Abraham Maslow quotes who are thought provoking.

”In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” – Abraham Maslow

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow

“I can feel guilty about the past. Apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” – Abraham Maslow

“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I´d still swim. And I´d despise the one who gave up.” – Abraham Maslow.

“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.” – Abraham Maslow

“What a man can be,
He must be.
This need we call self-actualization.” – Abraham Maslow

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” – Abraham Maslow

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” – Abraham Maslow

“It isn´t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” – Abraham Harold Maslow

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety, out of fear and need for defense, and risk for the sake of progress and growth. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.” – Abraham Maslow

“We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.” – Abraham Maslow

Swedish: "Vi måste förstå kärlek; vi måste kunna undervisa det, att skapa den, kunna förutsäga den, annars är världen förlorad till fientlighet och misstänksamhet." – Abraham Maslow

”The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality need as the basic need´s we have already discussed.” – Abraham Maslow

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” – Abraham Maslow

söndag 15 november 2015

Ayn Rand has a fascinating mind

Ayn Rand has a fascinating mind that I do respect.

Ayn Rand Quotes to ponder for our minds. :-)

“What is morality, or ethics? It is a code of values to guide man’s choices and actions—the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life. Ethics, as a science, deals with discovering and defining such a code.
The first question that has to be answered, as a precondition of any attempt to define, to judge or to accept any specific system of ethics, is: Why does man need a code of values?
Let me stress this. The first question is not: What particular code of values should man accept? The first question is: Does man need values at all—and why?” - Ayn Rand

“The power of morality is the greatest of all intellectual powers—and mankind’s tragedy lies in the fact that the vicious moral code men have accepted destroys them by means of the best within them.” - Ayn Rand

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." - Ayn Rand

"The government was set to protect man from criminals
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And the Constitution was written to protect man from the goverment.” – Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand,
”A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.” – Ayn Rand
Rand
“The government was set to protect man from criminals
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And the Constitution was written to protect man from the goverment.” – Ayn

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values." Ayn Rand

fredag 9 januari 2015

Living Simple & Aboard Quotes

Time for some Quotes that I like, hope you like it! :-)

Click for a bigger picture. Inspiration / Wisdom board number 155. Live Aboard Quotes and so on

------ From: http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/living.htm
“Living Aboard” by Tom and Nan MacNaughton ------
“It is easier to adapt to life without complex systems than it is to keep complex systems functioning on a boat.”
“[...] start with the simplest possible boat and then add complexities.”
“[...] everything you add takes something away”

“Long term living aboard seems to be a long process of slowing down, simplifying lifestyle and technology, reducing dependence on outside assistance, learning respect for and cooperation with Nature, and reducing the need for money. “

“[...] we will just summarize by saying that simplicity, economy, mobility, and small boats equal freedom the likes of which is seldom seen today. “
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“So why clutter up your already cramped boat with gadgets that (1) you don't need in the first place and (2) you can't repair when they let you down? Their advice that, if you can't fix it then it probably shouldn't be on the boat, is some of the sagest crusing wisdom around.” - Ryan McNabb reviews the book: Cost Conscious Cruiser

“It takes a lot of courage, brains and efforts not to give in to those consumer urges driven into us from birth.” - Jesse K on s/v Smitty

“ Line one for the voyaging sailor, If I want something and I don’t have it, I don’t need it.” - POSTED BY STORMY IN SAILING BLOG http://artofhookie.org/2015/01/05/keeping-up-with-the-joneses-2/
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From: Living Big In A Tiny House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckbqU4kK2I&index=2&list=PL999ZDYL8QbTqnT8PZshZzJa7tat-Vdcj

15:45: ”Being self-sustainable, not relying on a system that tends to tie you to the system. Not paying out every week, every single week you gotto find those 300 bucks or whatever, every single week so somebody else can sit and build a nest egg, and made it ok to do it to each other, and I don’t like that idea. I think if you are renting, you should be renting to buy. I want my own place so that I don’t fall into their problem. Now, here in New Zealind we have a big problem with people who can’t afford a house, who will never own a house.. so why dont they build a little place and start to save money , then they can buy their land, and they can move their little microhouse on to the land. Then they can start saving money, because they are not paying out rent every week (big smile). Then they can save money and actually build their own house. So they could have it all, but you need to start right. As opposed to living in a economic surf that just drains everything, all your effort, gone. And I´ll never own a normal home, cause I refuse to get a mortgage, and put myself thru that. So this is the way out. You can build it slowly, feed it, people around you, you´ll make it happen.” - Brett Sutherland, New Zealand, Living in a selfbuilt Tiny House, have lived on boat also.

//nest-egg, perhaps Brett thinks of, "The Goose and the Golden Egg"?//
or
“DEFINITION OF 'NEST EGG'
A substantial sum of money that has been saved or invested for a specific purpose.” - källa: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nestegg.asp
//

söndag 15 juni 2014

Jim Rohn Inspirationboard about ambition and more

Nr 87

Quotes from Jim Rohn about discipline and ambition

lördag 20 april 2013

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