“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” —Anonymous

“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“Evil is whatever distracts." —Franz Kafka

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. / When you are sorrowful look again into your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." —Khalil Gilbran

“Mind is the master weaver, both of the interior garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance." —James Allen

“Motion is lotion" —Kate Nicholson (Bowdoin Yoga Teacher)

“There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?"" —David Foster Wallace

“If you're working from 7p-11p you suddenly become that friend who's never available, which is horribly shortsighted and unwise.." —Someone awesome probably

“God's apt to repay services with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars." —Stephen King

“If mankind suddenly became virtuous, thousands would starve" —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Self-esteem is just the reputation you have with yourself. You'll always know." —Naval Ravikant

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." —Oscar Wilde

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." —Anaïs Nin

“I have seen the graves of those who did not fight fearing they would die." —Che Guevara

“How is your body like the soil?" —Anonymous (shoutout Alishia '28)

“Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts—generally someone else's, mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions." —Anthony De Mello

“At the beginning, I did what I could. Now I do whatever I want." —Bad Bunny

“It is said to be a finer thing to love openly than in secret." -Pausanius' speech, Plato's Symposium

“Real Gs move in silence like lasagna." -Lil Wayne

“Nothin' to lose and somethin' to win, once and again." -Lil Wayne

“A myth is a dream for a culture... a dream is an individual myth." —who knows dude

“Real artists ship." —Steve Jobs

“You have to be willing to seek; like, you have to be willing to be real frank." —Pharell Williams, commenting on the uniqueness of Maggie Rogers

“[On modern man]: Instead of theism he is a devotee of atheism, instead of Dionysus he favours the more modern Mithras, and instead of heaven he seeks paradise on earth." — Carl Jung

“If you wan to run, be running." — Fela Kuti

“In general, the state of being self-conscious is worse than anything that you might be self-conscious about." — Anonymous

“Even for the geniuses of violin making, Stradivari and Guarneri, it took centuries until the full potential of their instruments was unlocked." — Matas Petrikas

“Civilized man possesses a high degree of dissociability and makes continual use of it in order to avoid every possible risk." — Carl Jung

“Until you make your unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate." — Carl Jung

“Poverty is a mother of invention." — Matas Petrikas

“To a philosopher, all news is gossip." — Henry David Thoreau

“The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, then back up" — Jerry Jeff Walker, musician.

“Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "is this the condition that I feared?... It is while fortune is kind that the soul should fortify itself against her violence." — Seneca.

“The quality of your life is determined by the amount of hard conversations you're willing to have” — Tim Ferriss.

“ man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also, unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after.” — Marcus Aurelius

“My tardiness in answering your letter was not due to press of business. Do not listen to that sort of excuse; I am at liberty, and so is anyone else who wishes to be at liberty. No man is at the mercy of affairs.” — Seneca

“Shallow rivers are noisy. Deep lakes are silent.” — Derek Sivers

“To be successful: 1. Find one great idea and 2. take it very, very seriously.” — Charlie Munger

“Never argue with a fool... onlookers won't be able to tell the difference.” — Mark Twain

“It is more deductible to give than to receive.” — Henry Leabo

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Relax, and let the job do itself through you.” — Maxwell Maltz

“I have paid no poll tax for six years.” — Henry David Thoreau

“What are the biggest overall trends of human evolution that need attention?” — Buckminster Fuller

“As they could not reach me, they resolved to punish my body.” — Henry David Thoreau, remarking upon his day spent in jail for not paying taxes.

“Voting for the good is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to man feebly your desire that it should prevail.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Whoever forces the forceless / or offends the inoffensive / speedily comes indeed / to [a negative state of being]” — The Buddha

“Look for decisions that remove hundreds or thousands of other decisions.” — IDK

“If you and a collaborator agree on everything, then one of you may be unnecessary.” — Charlie Munger

“The difficult we do now. The impossible takes a little longer.” — 1940's Phrase from the US Navy Construction Battalion

“I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — I forgot

“It should feel as though the ground is smashing the bag through your fist.” — Josh Waitzkin, martial artist/chess champion, describing the perfect punch.

“You be in your feelings, I be in my bag, you bish!” — Kendrick Lamar

“Who sought the prize his heart described, / And did not ask release, / Whose free born valor was not bribed / By prospect of a peace.” — Friend of Henry David Thoreau

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, and then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” — Sylvia Plath, apparently

“It helps to have assiduity: the ability to sit on your ass until you do it.” — Charlie Munger

“Next time you're trying to avoid someone, ask yourself, 'What am I trying to not feel?'” — Jade Bartz, Bowdoin class of '28

“Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.” — "Why Bother," written by Sean Thomas Dougherty (Shoutout Aidan Aybar '28 for putting me on)

“All problems become smaller if you confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly and its spines crumble.” — Maxwell Maltz

“Happiness requires problems.” — H. L. Hollingworth

“He who truly creates is alone.” — Milocz (Shoutout Nate Berg '27)

“How foolish it is to set out one's life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!” — Seneca, On the Futility of Planning Ahead

“Intelligence is a matter of guessing well.” — Horace Barlow, neurobiologist

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.” — Khalil Gibran

“All the pain of your entire life, on your deathbed, will seem to have lasted no longer than a single night at a bad hotel.” — Francis Pedraza

“For lack of a nail a shoe was lost / for lack of a shoe a horse was lost.” — Proverb

“Don't fall in love with the moment and think you're in love with the girl.” — "She's American," song by The 1975 (shoutout Elizabeth White)

“Not all who believe succeed, but none who don't do.” — Proverb

“The road to vice is not only downhill, but steep.” — Seneca

“Pessimists got that way by financing optimists.” — John Gardner

“We are timeless beings, amalgamations of all past generations, who will continue to exist through all future generations.” — Liam Rodriguez, Bowdoin class of '28.

“Did you update your website today?” — Jules Wecker, Bowdoin class of '28.

“We are what we repeatedly do.” — Aristotle

“Do the thing and you shall have the power.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.” — Carl Jung