When your heart is open to possibilities, you start to notice small things that can lead to enormous discoveries.
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
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When you have become the embodiment of gratitude, think about how pure the water that fills your body will be. When this happens, you yourself will be a beautiful, shining crystal of light.
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
“Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
“My central claim in this book is that these two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 became the anxious generation.”
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt
If the Earth stopped and the air didn’t, the result would be a sudden thousand-mile-per-hour wind.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
Great invention is defined by the realization that the prerequisites are in place, laid before us by predecessors with entirely unrelated ambitions, just waiting to be combined and enhanced.
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley
“Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.”
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley
So even though vacuum tubes are a key stepping stone on the road to computers, few if any could see it coming.[..] The problem is that the stepping stone does not resemble the final product.
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley
“Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
"Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see."
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
The entire universe is in a state of vibration, and each thing generates its own frequency, which is unique.
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any large-scale human cooperation – whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe – is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
"According to Buddhism, the root of suffering is neither the feeling of pain nor of sadness nor even of meaninglessness. Rather, the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction. Due to this pursuit, the mind is never satisfied. Even when experiencing pleasure, it is not content, because it fears this feeling might soon disappear, and craves that this feeling should stay and intensify. People are liberated from suffering not when they experience this or that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the impermanent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them."
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
They say there are no stupid questions. That’s obviously wrong; I think my question about hard and soft things, for example, is pretty stupid. But it turns out that trying to thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you to some pretty interesting places.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
“It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
“Objectives might sometimes provide meaning or direction, but they also limit our freedom and become straitjackets around our desire to explore. After all, when everything we do is measured against its contribution to achieving one objective or another, it robs us of the chance for playful discovery.”
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley
“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
“Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
“Opportunity doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does. Opportunity meeting the prepared mind—that’s the game.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
"The human body is essentially water, and consciousness is the soul."
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
There are parallels to this principle for human emotions. For every negative emotion, there is an exactly opposite positive emotion. The following list contains emotions that create opposing frequencies: hate gratitude anger kindness fear courage anxiety peace of mind pressure presence of mind.
The Hidden Messages in Water
Masaru Emoto
“We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
“Biology enables, Culture forbids.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
“Experience, not information, is the key to emotional development.”
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt
“People don’t get depressed when they face threats collectively; they get depressed when they feel isolated, lonely, or useless.”
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt
“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
“Do not try any of this at home. The author of this book is an Internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind. The publisher and the author disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects resulting, directly or indirectly, from information contained in this book.”
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
“The idea that all our pursuits can be distilled into neatly-defined objectives and then almost mechanically pursued offers a kind of comfort against the harsh unpredictability of life.”
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
“The acquisition of wisdom is a moral duty.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
“The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger