“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent Van Gogh

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting." — Luna Lovegood, just some life advice from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on how to be more interesting :)

"A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading." –Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The most mature human beings are also childlike. That is not as contradictory as it sounds. The most mature people are the ones who can have the most fun. They are able to regress at will; they can become childish and play with children and be close to them. It is no accident, I think, that children generally tend to like them and get along with them. Involuntary regression is of course a very dangerous thing; but voluntary regression seems to be characteristic of very healthy people." — Abraham Maslow, psychologist on maturity, Source: Emotional Blocks to Creativity (hat tip to Dylan O'Sullivan)

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." —Philosopher Lao Tzu on happiness, Source: Tao Te Ching

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” — Robert Holden, British psychologist and author

"It's not a race. You are not ahead. You are not behind. You are here. Enjoy it and make the most of it." — James Clear

“Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth.” — Dalai Lama

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Seuss

“The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.” — Naval Ravikant, investor and philosopher

“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses

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

“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