… No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”– James Clear, Atomic Habits
“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“No one is alone in self isolation because the entire world is there with you.” — Ken Poirot
” I cannot stress too deeply the importance of one’s constructive mental attitude toward life…
One gets out of life only what one puts into it; everything must be seeded in different degrees. Always express happy thoughts and keep an uncomplaining mind. A complaining mind is a destructive one-destructive to health and happiness. How easily we may be made unhappy depends upon the weakness and ignorance of our own minds.…
“I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development.” ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
“There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.” ― Lin Yutang
“If one’s bowels move, one is happy, and if they don’t move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.” ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.” ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned…
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there…