“Instead of feeling that you’ve blown the day and thinking, “I’ll get back on track tomorrow,” try thinking of each day as a set of four quarters: morning, midday, afternoon, evening. If you blow one quarter, you get back on track for the next quarter. Fail small, not big.”
Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before
“If a friend betrays us, our reverse clause is to learn from how this happened and how to forgive this person’s mistake. If we’re thrown in prison, our reverse clause is that we can refuse to be broken by this change of events and try to be of service to our fellow prisoners. When a technical glitch erases our work, our reverse clause is that we can start fresh and do it better this time. Our progress can be impeded or disrupted, but the mind can always be changed—it retains the power to redirect the path.”
Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 167)
“Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller, via Sunbeams (Page 102)
“You’ll never see the light at the end of the tunnel if you don’t get in that tunnel.”
Matt Roe | Read Matt’s Blog on this quote ➜
