"You've already got it. You just need to get out of your head, because you have something great. If you're brave enough to share it over and over again, people will pay attention.” —Léa Sen, Carhartt Work In Progress magazine, issue 11

"My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it, fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, “The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.” —Anthony de Mello, Awareness

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar." —Pablo Picasso

"Art thou pale for weariness / Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, / Wandering companionless... ?" —A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

"One thing I've heard over and over from combat vets: When facing combat, soldiers don't think about risking their life for country or God. They risk life for their own and their combat brother's lives.."—Memorial Day Sermon, my Grandfather, a veteran and long-time licensed social worker

"The forgetting of all religion leads to the forgetting of the duties of man."—Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Who the real owner if the boss gets a salary?"—Saint Pablo, The Life of Pablo

"The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he may communicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations." —The Second Tree from the Corner, E.B. White

"The lovely thing about jesus was that he was so at home with sinners, because he understood that he wasn't one bit better than they were." —Awareness, Anthony De Mello

"Witch hunters were extremely thorough in their search for the Devil and his accomplices. But if the witch hunters really wanted to find diabolical evil, they just had to look in the mirror" —Yuval Noah Harari

"There is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying... because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth." —E.B. White

“Give me some music: music, moody food / Of us that trade in love.” -Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra II.5.1-2

"Nobody ever rejects you; they're only rejecting what they think you are. But that cuts both ways. Nobody ever accepts you either." —Awareness, Anthony De Mello

"Think of some people you're living around whom you want to change. You find them moody, inconsiderate, unreliable, treacherous, or whatever. But when you are different, they'll be different. That's an infallible and miraculous cure. The day you are different, they will become different." —Awareness, Anthony De Mello

"What's the difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist? The taxidermist leaves the hide." -Mortimer Caplan, former IRS director

"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today." -Jesus (from Matthew 6:34)

"When valor preys on reason, / It eats the sword it fights with." -Enobarbus, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

“Be regular and orderly in life, so you can be violent and original in your work." Gustve Flaubert

“Everybody's crying out for peace / None is crying out for justice.” Peter Tosh, song "Equal Rights"

“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.” - I don't remember

“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

“Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral." —Khalil Gilbran

“Work is love made visible. / And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. / For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger." —Khalil Gilbran

“When you kill a beast say to him in your heart, / "By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed. / For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. / Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven."' —Khalil Gilbran

“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

“Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around." -stephen king

“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

“And what shall I give unto him who has left his plough in midfurrow, or to him who has stopped the wheel of his winepress?" —Khalil Gilbran

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Avoid compulsively making things worse." —Fortune Cookie

“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

“If you're a politician who wants to be elected, how will your interest in people be guided? If what you're interested in is sex, how do you think you're going to look at men and women? If you're attached to power, that colors your view of human beings. An attachment destroys your capacity to love. What is love? Love is sensitivity, love is consciousness." —Anthony De Mello

“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)

“What is timeless is beyond our comprehension. Yet the mystics tell us that eternity is right now." —Anthony De Mello

“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

“Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism." -Allan Bloom

“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

“Why do men stand in awe of the stars, and the moon, the immensity of the sea, the beauty of a flower or sunset, and at the same time downgrade themselves? Did not the same creator make man?” — Maxwell Maltz

“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

“Be cheerful, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.” — Marcus Aurelius

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

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” — Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.” — Chogyam Trungpa

“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

“Remember the main difference between a well-known music track and yours: One of them was finished — and released.” — Matas Petrikas

“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)

“Become insane and desperate to die. Ten men will not be able to kill you.” — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“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.

“The magic lives close to the edge.” — Lorde

“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