Our Uniqueness

  "Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." - Martin Heidegger

Free Will and the Past

"You will change your mind, but you are not free.
Your moment of freedom was yesterday.
You made a decision. You set in motion
Forces in your life and in the lives of others
Which cannot be reversed. That is one consideration.
And another is this: it is a serious matter
To bring someone back from the dead."

-T.S. Eliot (in the play The Cocktail Party)

Habits

 "People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." - F.M. Alexander

Chekhov on Trust

 "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible." --Russian playwright Anton Chekhov

Kierkegaard on Life

 "Is it perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard

The Good Life

 "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." -William Arthur Ward

Replayed in our Minds

“Our emotions are strongly determined by how much we talk to ourselves and how we interpret the events happening around us.  A great deal of energy, time, and attention can be wasted on small and insignificant incidents just because they are continually being replayed in our minds.” - Canfield and Chee (pg. 85)