All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“Work hard. Work dirty. Choose your favourite spade and dig a small, deep hole; located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Then bury your cellphone and then find a hobby. Actually, ‘hobby’ is not a weighty enough word to represent what I am trying to get across. Let’s use ‘discipline’ instead. If you engage in a discipline or do something with your hands, instead of kill time on your phone device, then you have something to show for your time when you’re done. Cook, play music, sew, carve, shit – bedazzle! Or, maybe not bedazzle… The arrhythmic is quite simple, instead of playing draw something, fucking draw something! Take the cleverness you apply to words with friends and utilise it to make some kick ass cornbread, corn with friends – try that game. I’m here to tell you that we’ve been duped on a societal level. My favourite writer, Wendell Berry writes on this topic with great eloquence, he posits that we’ve been sold a bill of goods claiming that work is bad. That sweating and working especially if soil or saw dust is involved are beneath us. Our population especially the urbanites, has largely forgotten that working at a labour that one loves is actually a privilege.”

“Women don’t like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you’re gonna have to go about it a different way.”

“True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.”

“In order to grow, I promise you’ll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they’ll be the habits you’re most in love with.”

“The brain grows when used to think, to read and to create possibilities.”

“You can’tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.”

“Hustlers will never sleep and dream, But they stay awake and have their dreams”

“You don’t have to act strong when you are strong. It is only those who are strong enough to risk being broken that are truly unbreakable.”

“The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: “Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!”

“To be better for other, you need to know how to choose to get the best from yourself.”

“Sometimes we stumble and fall, it doesn’t mean we are failures, it simply means we are moving forward.”

“I know its hard. You didn’t choose your life to be the way it is now , but you can chose for it to stay the same by not doing anything or you can chose to change it for better by trying to do something about it.”

“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”

“Every day is a new day, you get to start again, give yourself permission reinvent yourself.”

“It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.”