2022 in 100 quotes

Self-growth, Education, Art, Life, Wealth, Humans, Reality, Random, Love, & Philosophy

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2022 in 100 quotes - Essay of the week

I’ve written over 50 newsletters this year and in every newsletter, I shared 3 quotes of the week. This week I’ve accumulated all the best quotes of the year and shared them here based on their category.

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Self-growth

1. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. -Steve Jobs

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2. "The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act." --Barbara Sher
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3. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
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4. Consistently do what you can't and you'll find yourself doing what you love.
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5. “If you win the morning, you win the day” - Tim Ferriss
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6. "Focus is about saying no" - Steve Jobs
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7. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” — Ryan Blair
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8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. H. Jackson Brown Jr. (Tweet this quote)

9. "Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical." - Howard Schultz (Tweet this quote)

10. “Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not.” - Leo Tolstoy (Tweet this quote)

Humans

1. "A great man is hard on himself, a small man is hard on others." - Confucius
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2. “And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom, or loneliness?” —Charles Bukowski
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3. “You, he said, are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain” - E. Autumn
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4. "If You Know How Quickly People Forget the Dead, You'll Stop Living to Impress People" — Christopher Walken
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5. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Baruch (Tweet this quote)

6. "Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper (Tweet this quote)

7. “How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.” - Nina LaCour (Tweet this quote)

8. "The girl with a future avoids a man with a past." — Evan Esar (Tweet this quote)

9. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu (Tweet this quote)

10. “Everyone smiles in the same language.” ― George Carlin (Tweet this quote)

Education

1. “Reading will help you find interesting stuff and a collection of dots. Writing will help you think clearly and connect those dots”
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2. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller (Tweet this quote)

3. "He who reads is never alone." - Helder Simone (Tweet this quote)

4. “The less a writer discusses his work—and himself—the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.” Afterword to "The Bagful of Dreams" in The Jack Vance Treasury (2007).
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5. Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills. -William Hazlitt (Tweet this quote)

6. health is not just about what you are eating. it's also about what you're thinking and saying. - Anon (Tweet this quote)

7. The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. ~ Oswald Chambers (Tweet this quote)

8. "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt (Tweet this quote)

9. "It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” - Frederick Douglass (Tweet this quote)

10. "When Students cheat on exams it's because our School System values grades more than Students value learning." - Neil Degrasse Tyson (Tweet this quote)

Reality

1. "We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children." ~ Jimmy Carter
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2. "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." — Plato
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3. "When an ox enters a palace, it does not become a king. Instead the palace turns into a barn." - Turkish proverb
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4. "Blowing out someone else's candle won't make yours shine brighter…" - Anonymous
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5. Persistence without insight will lead to same outcomes - Boba Fett
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6. We live in an age when corporations pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism” -Clay Routlegde
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7. "A government that is allowed to break the law during an emergency will create an emergency to break the law"(Tweet this quote)

8. “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” -- Thomas Sowell (Tweet this quote)

9. “People become risk-seeking when all their options are bad.” —Daniel Kahneman (Tweet this quote)

10. “Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.” — Nathaniel Branden (Tweet this quote)

Art

1. “In my opinion, all artwork is stored energy. The art releases its power whenever a viewer becomes a dreamer.” —Larry Bell
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2. Chekhov said that the role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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3. "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." ~ Maya Angelou
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4. Look, if you’re an average person, you make gifts “that society specifies in advance,” but if you’re an artist, you give gifts that basically nobody asked for. And so, “there is no way for the artist to be at peace with his work or with the society that accepts it.” - Becker
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5. “Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
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6. "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Banksy
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7. This is what happens when the creative dept is overrun by the marketing dept. Being data-driven is the death of art." - Read this somewhere, don’t know where. (Tweet this quote)

8. "Beautiful things don't ask for attention". - James Thurber (Tweet this quote)

9. “Anyone can win eyes, Winning the hearts is the hardest 🚀” (Tweet this quote)

10. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Life

1. "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
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2. My favourite poem:
   Read a book, sip some tea.
   Create art, climb a tree.
   
   Seek adventure, on land and sea.
   Stay young at heart, and be wild and free. - Natalia Crow
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3. “My dad said these are the 3 hardest lessons; A broken heart, empty pockets, and a hungry stomach”
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4. "He who angers you, conquers you" - Elizabeth Kenny (Tweet this quote)

5. “Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.” — Lucius Seneca (Tweet this quote)

6. We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese (Tweet this quote)

7. "I just wish figuring out your life didn't take your life away from you" - John Mayer (Tweet this quote)

8. "One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time." — Nancy Astor (Tweet this quote)

9. "Progress is dancing to the tune you used to cry to" - Orion Carloto (Tweet this quote)

10. "The reason why the good old days seemed so good is because the bad old days had lost and forgotten" - Levianne Cuissof. (Tweet this quote)

Wealth

1. "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." - Robert Graves
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2. "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." — Epictetus
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3. If you truly want to know how rich you are, drop a tear and see how many hands come to wipe that tear - Gaur Gopal Das

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4. You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve" - Elon Musk (Tweet this quote)

5. Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave.

6. We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; Quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. — Tom Waits (Tweet this quote)

7. “Who lacks sex - speaks about sex, hungry talks about food, a person who has no money - about money, and our oligarchs and bankers talk about morality.” — Sigmund Freud (Tweet this quote)

8. Luck and risk are siblings. They are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort.

9. “I’ve learned that the ones who are the most smart aren’t going to make it. I don’t know anybody who left investing to become an engineer, but I know a lot of engineers who left engineering to become investors.” —Peter Bernstein

10. There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.

Philosophy

1. "No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future." — Roy T. Bennett (Tweet this quote)

2. "Silence is a source of great strength"- Lao Tzu (Tweet this quote)

3. "I don't want to believe, I want to know" - Carl Sagan (Tweet this quote)

4. “Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.” —Ben Franklin (Tweet this quote)

5. “The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.” — George Bernard Shaw ​ (Tweet this quote)

6. “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain (Tweet this quote)

7. "Some people will choose to remember & recognize only the version of you that they held the most power over, no matter how long it's been or how much you've changed" - Charisma Enigma (Tweet this quote)

8. "Three May Keep a Secret if Two are Dead" - Benjamin Franklin (Tweet this quote)

9. "I fear not the army of lions led by a sheep. I fear the army of sheep led by a lion." -Alexander the Great (Tweet this quote)

10. “Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” —Dan Zadra (Tweet this quote)

Random quotes

1. "The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding" - The Lessons of history (Tweet this quote)

2. “Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai.” “Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.” ― Anthony Capella (Tweet this quote)

3. “Story. Community. Creativity. Vitality. Soul. Essential pillars of the Fifth Industrial Revolution” - Mona Hamdy (Tweet this quote)

4. Marketing is not a battle of products it's a battle of perception - Unknown (Tweet this quote)

5. "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" - Richard Feynman (Tweet this quote)

6. "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." (Tweet this quote)

7. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations (Tweet this quote)

8. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle (Tweet this quote)

9. “One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is grieve the loss of a person who’s still alive” - Read it on Reddit. (Tweet this quote)

10. “Once I did bad and that I heard ever, twice I did good but that I heard never” - Dale Carnegie (Tweet this quote)

Love

1. “They told me that to make her fall in love, I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs, I’m the one who falls in love.” - Tommaso Ferraris (Tweet this quote)

2. "Women remember the men who made them laugh, men the women who made them cry." - Henri de Regnier

3. We live in an upside-down world, where the good person has to go to a psychologist to learn to put up with the things the bad person does. - Crystallino

4. Love people and use things because the opposite never works. ~ The Minimalists Podcast (2022) (Tweet this quote)

5. "It's when you're in prison or in the hospital that you know your true friends." - Portuguese saying (Tweet this quote)

6. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. - Bob Marley (Tweet this quote)

7. "The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James (Tweet this quote)

8. Attraction can bring us together, Empathy and effort can keep us together. (Tweet this quote)

9. "Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold." - Gaur Gopal Das (Tweet this quote)

10. “Don't let getting lonely make you you reconnect with toxic people. You shouldn't drink poison just because you are thirsty” - Anon (Tweet this quote)

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