Words worth keeping

The quote collection.

Reminders for brave starts, creative days, and the moments when you need a little push.

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Calm331

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.”

“Let us strengthen our inner defences. If the inner part be safe, man can be attacked, but never captured.”

“Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.”

Calm336

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

Calm338

“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance — now, at this very moment — of all external events. That’s all you need.”

Calm339

“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. / To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”