HOW TO BE AWESOME

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.” (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici) – Unknown




“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley



“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius



“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain



“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland



“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank



“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays



“Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.” – Colin Powell



“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi



“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle



“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn



“To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee



“Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy



“The commonsense rules of the ‘real world’ are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.” – Tim Ferriss



“You don’t face your fears, you stand up to them.” – Brian Clark



“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.” – Marcus Aurelius



“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” – H. Albright



“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell



“There’s no certainty – only opportunity.” – V, V for Vendetta



“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson



“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” – Epictetus