söndag 17 april 2016

Mostly quotes from unknown (317)

Again I´ve gatherd some quotes that I like. :-) Enjoy!

“I´d socialize, but it gets in the way of just being at home and doing what I want.” – unknown introvert?

Card nr 317!

”Weak people revenge.
Strong people forgive.
Intelligent people ignore.”

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.” – Unknown.



“What consumes your mind, controls your life.”

“Happiness is a direction, not a destination”
― -Unknown


"The eyes are useless when the mind is blind."

Mistakes are the perfect chance to learn and grow.

Keep in mind, one lie can ruin a thousand truths. – Lack in trust

Do what is right, not what is easy.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.

Do not listen with the intent to reply. But with the intent to understand.

“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.” - Unknown
A tongue has no bones but it can break a heart. Watch how you formulate your words.

Nothing is worth it if you aren´t happy.

Fördomsfri – Dont judge someone just because they sin differently than you
Dömer inte någon bara för att de syndar annorlunda än du. Att vara öppen för bättre resonemang är en dygd.

A great relationship doesn´t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end.
When a woman is loved correctly, she becomes ten times the woman she was before.” – Reyna Biddy, Same goes with a man. It´s amazing to watch.


Overthinking leads to negative thoughts, but don’t think too little, that’s even worse. And never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.
Don’t be a narcissist playing a victim because YOU made bad choices, take responsibility for your actions, and educate yourself so you do better choices in the future. Evolve your judgment.
A narcissist paints a picture of themselves as being the victim or innocent in all aspects. They will be offended by the truth. They can´t stand wasted their life in the wrong direction. But what is done n the shadows will come to light. Time has a way of showing peoples true colors.”
“Time discovers truth” - Seneca
“Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.” - Unknown
Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.
“In The End, We Only Regret The Chances We Didn't Take" -Unknown”
― -Unknown
“You will NEVER win unless you try.”
― -Unknown

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will...  And remember that we sometimes create our own heartbreaks trough high expectations.


fredag 8 april 2016

Good Quotes from Abraham Maslow.

Good Quotes from Abraham Maslow.

Abraham Maslow quotes
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

onsdag 30 december 2015

Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it...

Illustrationboard nr 263 and 264

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca among others

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



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 23 oktober 2015

About critical thinking and changing values, Excerp from J. Flynn and S. Molyneux video

Swedish first:
Om att vi måste förändra våra värderingar (att inte bli infekterade av prylmani, militarism och kulten av popularitet). Om att skaffa sig en oberoende åsikt och uppskatta människor som kan tänka för sig själva (som framförallt orkar tänka abstrakt!) och inte blint (dumt) är medgörliga i viljan att lyssna på majoritetens media (ofta känslostyrd). Om att hitta nyckeln till att släppa vårt sinne fritt. (liberation of the mind)
Excerpt from: Human Intelligence: The Flynn Effect | Dr. James Flynn and Stefan Molyneux
Excerpt from: Human Intelligence: The Flynn Effect | Dr. James Flynn and Stefan Molyneux
PGHÅ nr243: 24 okt- 2015:

Human Intelligence: The Flynn Effect | Dr. James Flynn and Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0W5Efp8N0


36:30 “Some of the many wonderful ideas that you can use to give yourself a Mental Toolkit do come from philosophy but quite a few of them comes from other sciences. I mean, knowing what a market is a wonderful instrument. That is; knowing how a market operates.”  – Dr. James Flynn

1:09:42 “Well the ancients were right, they said: you can’t be infected by materialism, militarism or the cult of popularity. If you measure human beings in terms of their number of possessions, if you measure human beings just in terms of whether they´re tractable and go along with what everyone thinks. If you measure human beings in thrilling to the fact that you are a nation can push anyone else around on the international scene, you overlook what is really the purpose and that is the liberation of the mind. Chekhov says man is what he thinks and all my life I´ve wanted to get the intellectual equipment so I could liberate my mind to have an independent opinion about the great events and great problems of the world.” – Dr. James Flynn
//Chekhov = Anton Chekhov //
1:11:10 “There has to be a change in values, people have to measure their society in terms of the number of people who can think for themselves, about ethics, and about nationalism and about racism. And measure it less in terms of whether people can afford private airplanes.” – Dr. James Flynn
1:11:50 “That’s the cult of popularity, you shouldn’t want to be famous, you should want to be in control of your own mind and your own life.” – Dr. James Flynn
1:12:40 “We remember most those who bring us the greatest gift and it´s rarely politicians, and I think it mostly is the abstract thinkers who really help us to understand our self and the world.” – Stefan Molyneux

fredag 9 januari 2015

Living Simple & Aboard Quotes

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

Wisdom board number 155. Live Aboard Quotes and so on
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
//


tisdag 15 juli 2014

Inspirationboard nr 92: Epictetus and more

Epictetus lived 55 -135 AD and fortunately his students wrote down some of his saying. Otherwise we would not be able to enjoy his teaching. I have compounded some of them in this picture:

Its about perception and how we perceive and forms opinions about it.
Quotes Mostly from Epictetus, but also Viktor Frankl, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Shakespeare.
Quotes Mostly from Epictetus, but also Viktor Frankl, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Shakespeare.