9 quotes that helped me discover my calling
“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
— Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
- Rumi
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
— Gandhiji
“We work with the being but non-being is what we use”
— Lao Tzu
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “
— Mark Twain
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
— Henry Ford
“karmaṇy-evādhikāras te mā phaleṣhu kadāchana
mā karma-phala-hetur bhūr mā te saṅgo ’stvakarmaṇi”You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.
-Lord Krishna in Bhagawad Gita
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nitzsche
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” -Swami Vivekananda
