“Do not discourage yourself with what you haven't done, encourage yourself with what you will do.” — Neale Donald Walsch

“Be who you needed when you were younger.” — T.S Elliot

"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.” — Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.” — Gretchen Rubin

“Dream in Paris. Have fun in London if you’ve got money. Get lost in Tokyo. Dance in Brazil. Book in LA. Australia’s home, but live in New York.” —Baz Luhrman, Australia-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker via https://www.pi.fyi/p/baz-luhrmann

“You can’t do it unless you imagine it.” — George Lucas

“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” —Alan Cohen, contributing writer for the #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale

“Our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”— Paulo Coelho

"In the modern world, it is easy to feel like a passenger: reacting to notifications, responding to demands, consuming whatever you happen to drive past on your screen. But joy is found in being the driver. It's the act of looking at the raw material of your circumstances — your time, your energy, your relationships, your skills — and seeing what you can make from it. It is the act of creating the life you want (in big and small ways) that makes you feel alive and imbues life with extra meaning. The fact that you can hold a vision in your mind and then, however imperfectly, bend reality a few degrees in that direction."—James Clear

“And yet, you’re stopped at the place where he began a couple of years ago, asking yourself: should I risk my heart? The answer is yes. Not because risking one’s heart is easy to do, but because not doing it puts you at risk of something far more terrible than having your heart broken: living a life made smaller by fear.”— Cheryl Strayed

"When you are young you have more time than money. . . . When you are older, you tend to have more money than time. Here is what I learned from 40 years of traveling: Of the two modes, it is far better to have more time than money. When you have abundant time you can get closer to core of a place. You can hang around and see what really happens. You can meet a wider variety of people. You can slow down until the hour that the secret vault is opened. You have enough time to learn some new words, to understand what the real prices are, to wait out the weather, to get to that place that takes a week in a jeep. Money is an attempt to buy time, but it rarely is able to buy any of the above. When we don’t have time we use money to try to get us to the secret door on time, or we use it avoid needing to know the real prices, or we use money to have someone explain to us what is really going on. Money can get us close, but not all the way. I have never met anyone on a high-priced tour where everything is provided, who did not tell me, 'I wish I had more time.' I have seen millionaires look wistfully at time-rich backpackers and whisper, 'I wish I were them.' Time is the one thing you can give yourself in abundance. It is often the one resource the young own. Ironically, if you exploit your gift of time as you travel, you’ll gain more than any billionaire can." —Kevin Kelly, via link

“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.” —Isocrates, a preeminent ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher who established one of the first influential schools of rhetoric in Athens around 390 BCE

"Don't ruminate, activate. I find it is difficult to think my way into a better mood. When I sit and stew, the problem usually grows larger in my mind. But if I activate — even if it's unrelated to the problem at hand — my mood tends to improve. Action breaks the spell. Move your body, go outside, play an instrument, work in a different room, do something. Movement changes your state. And when your state changes, your perspective changes. New solutions appear. You notice options that were invisible when your mind was stuck running the same loop."— James Clear

“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.” — Alan Watts

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Improvements are only temporary until they become part of who you are. The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader. The goal is not to run a marathon, the goal is to become a runner. The goal is not to learn an instrument, the goal is to become a musician. Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This year, focus on the identity you want to build."—James Clear

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale