People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
TIM FERRISS
TIM FERRISS
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Many a false step was made by standing still.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on happiness
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.
Virat KohliVirat Kohli I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Never give a human the job of making you happy. Some days, they might call you sick. Other days they might call quit.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they’re really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.
Paris HiltonParis Hilton Always, always pursue happiness.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner