“We cannot control the external events around us, but we can control our reactions to them.”

– Epictetus

The mind, to ensure that it remains in control, seeks continuously to cover up the present moment with past and future, and so, as the vitality and infinite creative potential of Being, which is inseparable from the Now, becomes covered up by time, your true nature becomes obscured by the mind.

-Eckart Tolle

“It is not possible to control all external events; but if I simply control my mind, what need is there to control other things?”  

-Śāntideva

“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”

Lao Tzu

“It's the brain, not the heart or lungs, that's the critical organ.”

Roger Bannister, first person to run a mile under four minutes

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” 

― Zig Ziglar

“Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.”

Sam Harris

 “Extending yourself in compassion to another human being changes the nature of your relationship—the acknowledgment of one human being to another is what bonds, strengthens, and expands the human connection.”

--Oprah

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

-Lao Tzu

“Self-compassion is a more effective motivator than harsh self-criticism.”

Dr. Kristen Neff

“Empathy is a visceral feeling we often can’t control while compassion is a conscious action”.  Tony Robbins

 “How you do anything is how you do everything.”

Martha Beck

“The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.” — Deepak Chopra

“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.”—Marcus Aurelius

“The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it’s over but really wish it would go on forever. The justification of climbing is climbing, like the justification of poetry is writing; you don’t conquer anything except things in yourself…. The act of writing justifies poetry. Climbing is the same: recognizing that you are a flow. The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow. It is not a moving up but a continuous flowing; you move up to keep the flow going. There is no possible reason for climbing except the climbing itself; it is a self-communication.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

― Bruce Lee

"When you are tempted to lose your patience with someone just think of how patient someone has been with you.”

- Jay Shetty

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience". 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.”

- Francis de Sales