“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

“He that can have patience can have what he will”.

- Benjamin Franklin

“The person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, and so he loses touch with reality.”

-Alan Watts.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

—Marcus Aurelius

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. "

-Marcus Aurelius

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

— Karl A. Menniger, psychiatrist

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway

W.A.I.T Why am I talking?

“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

“Dali Lama”

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.”

Victor E. Frankel

Transformation is a process not an event

-John P. Kotter

“I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world.”

Jay Shetty

“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”

— Eckhart Tolle