7 Inspiring Quotes That Will Greatly Influence Your Approach To Life Itself
It’s deeply engraved in our nature to strive as a person, search for meaning and satisfy our needs. Why does it still feel like we have to accomplish more after we reach a certain goal?
Because humans are tireless.
And until you accept that there will always be more to experience, read, learn, love, connect with or master, you won’t find the fulfillment you’re seeking.
This greatly stands in the way on your path to happiness.
Social scientists often recommend that measures of subjective well-being should complement standard measures of economic well-being, such as GDP per capita. But how can happiness be measured?
In principle, it can be said that suicide rates, depression and listlessness are higher in first-world countries, even though they have a better standard of living.
The higher this standard, the harder it is to find “hope”, what do you hope for when you are actually doing quite well?
Because the human mind is flawed, be it emotionally or rationally, almost everything that we create is also flawed.
By such occurrences hope is created — the hope to solve this, to improve it but at the same time, the solution will be flawed again.
That’s why it’s most important to hope for certain values like respect, courage, and love instead of materialistic things.
Read these quotes with an open mind and I promise, they will definitely change your approach to life:
“I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today and whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked there is no reason not to follow your heart.” — Steve Jobs
“A soul is a universe and our body, its galaxy. Falling in love with faces restricts us to the vastness of the soul and we miss out on the beauty of it. The vastness is so enriching that we never fall out of love once we fall for souls. Love can be anything.” — Unknown
“For the first 25 years you measure success with grades, only to realize that the real value is in learning to learn and critical thinking.
In the second 25 years you measure success by how much money you made, only to realize that how you spend time, and with whom, is most important.” — Vala Afshar
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” — Steve Jobs
“In the moments just before we decide upon some of our most consequential acts, we are less rational and autonomous decision makers than we like to think. No brain operates in a vacuum, and over the course of seconds to No minutes, the wealth of information streaming influences the likelihood of pro- or antisocial acts. Pertinent information ranges from something as simple and unidimensional as shirt color to things as complex and subtle as cues about ideology. Moreover, the brain also constantly receives interoceptive information. And most important, much of these varied types of information are subliminal.” — Robert Sapolsky
“It may seem both strange and unreasonable that strong and intelligent people should simply sit still for hours on end. The Western mentality feels that such things are not only unnatural but a great waste of valuable time, however useful as a discipline for inculcating patience and fortitude. Although the West has its own contemplative tradition in the Catholic Church, the life of ‘sitting and looking’ has lost its appeal, for no religion is valued which does not ‘improve the world,’ and it is hard to see how the world can be improved by keeping still. Yet it should be obvious that action without wisdom, without clear awareness of the world as it really is, can never improve anything. Furthermore, as muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.” — Hermann Hesse
“It can be overwhelming to open ourselves to the beauty of the world that we have simply painted over as adults. But if we don’t — if we don’t take a real walk with a young child, for example — we lose the sense of glory and awe that the untamed world can constantly produce, and reduce our lives to dull necessity.” — Jordan Peterson
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