Life (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Life (MoC) ## Notes   - [[100 Days of note-taking - Day 1 - Which topics would your book of life cover]] - [[12 favorite questions or problems]] - [[42 Life Lessons At 42]] - [[A home is an experience]] - [[About the environment we create for our kids]] - [[Aldous Huxley about life]] - [[All we need in life now at this very moment]] - [[Bending, not breaking]] - [[Capturing moments of joy]] - [[Chasing Joy Over Career - Why Happiness Should Be Your Priority Now (Article)]] - [[Choosing means inviting life]] - [[Cogito ergo sum]] - [[Deferred lifestyle]] - [[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 023 - The Clock is Ticking]] - [[Don't let the system make a fool out of you]] - [[Don't take life advice from unhappy or unfulfilled people]] - [[Embrace new paths in life and destiny]] - [[Enjoy life]] - [[Equations for life]] - [[Factor in the time and energy required to get value out of what you buy]] - [[Fill your life with what you like]] - [[Five big lessons for life]] - [[Five Whys Technique]] - [[Food for thought]] - [[Glücksshuld]] - [[Go at your own pace]] - [[Going through depression and dark times (Article)]] - [[Gradually, then suddenly]] - [[Gravity problems]] - [[Having a destination and a direction helps]] - [[Hedonic treadmill]] - [[How the world changed in my lifetime]] - [[How to achieve Work-Life Balance to Improve Your Well-Being (Article)]] - [[How to define and revisit your career goals (Article)]] - [[How to define your life goals]] - [[How to fight against decision fatigue (Article)]] - [[Indecision is a decision]] - [[Knowledge adds dimensions for us to see beauty in]] - [[Lessons learned (2021 edition)]] - [[Life Design]] - [[Life design (2021 edition)]] - [[Life is unpredictable and it is difficult to be sure of anything]] - [[Life Tracker plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Life-changing decisions are hard and painful to make]] - [[LifeOS]] - [[Living on default]] - [[Logotherapy]] - [[Love is a choice]] - [[Make peace with the past]] - [[Memento Mori]] - [[Misguided education]] - [[Not learning from your mistakes can lead to a life of regret]] - [[On distractions, learning, and growth]] - [[On the importance of non-goals (Article)]] - [[Opportunity cost]] - [[Optimize for an empty calendar]] - [[Optimizing for happiness]] - [[Overwhelmed By Life Today (OBLT)]] - [[Patience is a powerful life skill]] - [[Personal System (PS)]] - [[Seven rules for a rewarding life]] - [[Sometimes we fail to recognize opportunities]] - [[Spend more time doing things you never regret]] - [[Surround yourself with people who force you to level up]] - [[Systems for health, intention, productivity, learning, knowledge, information management and control (Article)]] - [[The 10 percent target]] - [[The essence of Stoicism]] - [[The meaning of life according to different schools of philosophy]] - [[The more things change, the more they stay the same]] - [[The mythical right time - Don't Wait to Chase Your Dreams (Article)]] - [[The only thing that is real is the present]] - [[The pace of life is increasing, and the distractions multiplying. We need to get used to it, and find ways to protect ourselves]] - [[The parable of the second arrow]] - [[The void in our lives]] - [[Time Horizons]] - [[Tips to live a successful life]] - [[Truly Dead]] - [[Vision board]] - [[Vision grid]] - [[We have to simplify our lives]] - [[We only have 4000 weeks]] - [[What is life]] - [[What is your Ikigai]] - [[What is your purpose]] - [[What time horizons to consider]] - [[Why Test]] - [[Why time horizons matter]] - [[Why you need a personal organization system]] - [[Why you need a personal organization system (Article)]] - [[Why you should focus on happiness first]] - [[Work life balance]] - [[Work Life Balance (Article)]] - [[Work life fit]] - [[Work life integration]] - [[Work on your list of why's]] - [[You don't have to work all the time]] - [[Your habits and routines make you (Article)]] - [[Zen Productivity]]  ## Quotes   - [[A genius is the one most like himself]] - [[A key to live a happier life is to realize that no matter how hard we try, there is actually very little that we can control or influence. And what we can't control or influence, we should not worry too much about, and accept]] - [[A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life]] - [[A sense of universal responsibility has the power to negate adverse traits]] - [[Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been]] - [[Aldous Huxley about human islands]] - [[Always know what you want. Do the work. Dreams are not free]] - [[An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence]] - [[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live]] - [[Be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life]] - [[Be thankful for everything, because everything teaches you something]] - [[Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind]] - [[Begin each day as if it were on purpose]] - [[Better to live life erring on the side of being optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. Be realistic, but, as Monty Python would say, always look on the bright side of life]] - [[Beware the barrenness of a busy life]] - [[Circumstances don't make the man. They only reveal him to himself]] - [[Creating is living twice]] - [[Death makes us more aware of life and its beauty]] - [[Decisions are only the first step, the beginning of something new. Decisions open doors, but you still have to go through those to reach your destination]] - [[Design work around your life, not the other way around]] - [[Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives]] - [[Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world]] - [[Do not ever let circumstances dim your light. Warrior, shine ever so bright]] - [[Do the best you can. No one can do more than that]] - [[Don't break yourself just to fit into someone's life]] - [[Don't compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to what you were before]] - [[Don't count the days, make the days count]] - [[Don't let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life]] - [[Don’t let yourself be controlled by three things. People, money, or past experiences]] - [[Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you]] - [[Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect]] - [[During difficult times, ask yourself. What do I have to do to make this one of the best things that has ever happened to me]] - [[Each individual, not society or religion, is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely, or authentically]] - [[Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most]] - [[Each of us has an ephemeral look at the world]] - [[Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead]] - [[Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things]] - [[Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think]] - [[Entrepreneurship is living years of your life like most people won't so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't]] - [[Eternity is awful long time, especially towards the end]] - [[Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home]] - [[Every next level of your life will require a new version of you]] - [[Every now and then it’s good to stop climbing and appreciate the view from right where you are]] - [[Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own]] - [[Everyone thinks they know how we should be living. They want us to conform and try to influence us consciously or not. But no one knows how life should be lived, whether it's their own or someone else's]] - [[Everything is an experiment in life]] - [[Feynman used to keep 12 favorite problems in his mind and tested new ideas against them]] - [[Follow your curiosity. It might lead you to your passion or it might not]] - [[Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune]] - [[George Bernard Shaw about life]] - [[Get busy living or get busy dying]] - [[Get what you want and want what you get]] - [[Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here]] - [[Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful yes at every knot of the great network in which everything is connected to everything]] - [[Growth is messy, healing is messy, hearts are messy, life is messy, being human is messy. But time stops for no one. The sun will rise each day and it's up to you to decide whether you shall rise with it]] - [[Happiness is your reality minus your expectations]] - [[Happiness isn't something you postpone for the future. It's something you design for the present]] - [[Hardships are forcing functions for personal growth]] - [[Having no friends or not being involved in community activities will dramatically affect how long you live]] - [[I don't have time to hate people who hate me, because I'm too busy loving the people who love me]] - [[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well]] - [[I think, therefore I am]] - [[I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there]] - [[I've never regretted prioritizing time over money in my life. Less money means simpler choices, and more time means more possibilities for passion and fullfillment]] - [[If I must fall, may it be from a high place]] - [[If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less]] - [[If life must not be taken too seriously. Then so neither must death]] - [[If there is something holding you back in your life. Identify it. Focus on breaking past it. It will change your life]] - [[If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place]] - [[If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you. Not much]] - [[If you don't like where you are, move! You are not a tree!]] - [[If you feel like it's miserable and hard, stop making yourself do the hard thing… It's better to accept that you're lazy and cowardly, and then make it easy enough so you can do it anyway. That's my whole strategy with life]] - [[If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there]] - [[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of]] - [[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things]] - [[If your life just got harder, that means you've leveled up]] - [[In between goals is this thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed]] - [[In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional]] - [[In nostalgia, there is no difference between a day, a year, a decade, or a lifetime, because the amount of longing is beyond the idea of time]] - [[In order to write about life first you must live it]] - [[In the depths of our true Self we are peace, freedom, well-being, and contentment]] - [[In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years]] - [[It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop]] - [[It is a lot better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction]] - [[It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men]] - [[It is inevitable, if you enter into relations with people on a regular basis, that you will grow to be like them]] - [[It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it]] - [[It is not the length of life, but the depth]] - [[It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are]] - [[It's during the worst storms of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you]] - [[It's never too late to explore a new path in life, to start a new journey]] - [[It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path]] - [[It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting]] - [[Je pense donc je suis]] - [[Je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui]] - [[Key decisions are rare in a lifetime. Most decisions make a few ripples at worst (the long tail), while the key decisions are like tsunamis]] - [[Knowledge Management goes way beyond productivity. It's a means to learn more about yourself, and your dreams, develop your potential, and live the life you were meant to live]] - [[L'immortalité c'est long, surtout vers la fin]] - [[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards]] - [[Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful]] - [[Life does not wait for anyone. Your life is right now]] - [[Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient]] - [[Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it]] - [[Life is a balance between holding on and letting go]] - [[Life is a combinatorially explosive decision tree]] - [[Life is a marathon, not a sprint]] - [[Life is a wonderful rollercoaster. Without the downs, we wouldn't be able to fully appreciate the ups]] - [[Life is about surrounding yourself with like-minded others, and having a positive effect on the rest of the world. You don't have to have made a huge impact either, just being on the path to doing it is success enough]] - [[Life is about wanting what you get, not getting what you want]] - [[Life is addition up until age 40, and after that it's subtraction]] - [[Life is hard, but we make it much harder]] - [[Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing]] - [[Life is just too short not to enjoy what you're doing. If we can't make this fun, we should stop doing it]] - [[Life is like a book. If you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds]] - [[Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you gonna get]] - [[Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule]] - [[Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving]] - [[Life is long if you know how to use it]] - [[Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well]] - [[Life is not a novel to be read, but to be written]] - [[Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away]] - [[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind]] - [[Life is simply what our feelings do to us]] - [[Life is ten percent what happens to you, and ninety percent how you respond to it]] - [[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises]] - [[Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people’s approval on how you live it]] - [[Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing]] - [[Life is too short. Work on what makes you happy. Be with people who make you smile. Laugh as often as you can. Love as long as you live]] - [[Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future]] - [[Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself]] - [[Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself]] - [[Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile]] - [[Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown, even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to]] - [[Life, I've found, works the following way. Daily, you're presented with many small and surprising opportunities. Sometimes you seize one that takes you to the top. Most, though, if valuable at all, take you only a little way]] - [[Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself]] - [[Listen to your soul. You're the only one able to decipher it. If you don't, you risk living someone else's life]] - [[Live a life true to yourself and worry less about what others expect of you]] - [[Live every single day fully, so that when the time has come to leave this world, you won't have regrets]] - [[Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is]] - [[Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy]] - [[Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation]] - [[Midlife is when the universe gently places her hands on your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear. I'm not screwing around. It's time to show up and be seen]] - [[Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win]] - [[Most people are unable to choose their destiny, let alone fight for it]] - [[Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75]] - [[My favourite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time]] - [[Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it's meant to be, it will happen]] - [[Never regret a day in your life]] - [[Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, worst days give you lessons, and best days give you memories]] - [[Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching]] - [[No matter how good a person you are, you are evil in someone's story]] - [[No such thing as spare time. No such thing as free time. No such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go]] - [[None of us chooses how we start this life, but we have a big role in deciding how we finish]] - [[Normalize imperfection. The best things in life are rough around the edges]] - [[Not having any expectations in life is a pretty big expectation in itself]] - [[One day you'll wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now]] - [[Only entropy comes easy]] - [[People don't even realize that they keep following new paths every day. Every day is an opportunity to explore, discover, learn and grow, for every single path is unique]] - [[People I've lost in my life inspire me to live fully every single day]] - [[Plan in decades, live in moments]] - [[Quand tu n'as qu'une vie à vivre, c'est ce qui la rend unique]] - [[Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit]] - [[Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet]] - [[Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make big choices in life]] - [[Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing]] - [[Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old]] - [[Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it]] - [[Shallow people value others depending on their appearances and then question why they lack genuine people in their lives]] - [[Si on travaille pour gagner sa vie, pourquoi se tuer au travail]] - [[Simple things are the most extraordinary]] - [[Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has every known me]] - [[Sometimes in life, you have to make tough decisions. even it's not the most popular decision. Many won't because it's tough. But at the end of the day, you have to do what you feel right despite what everyone thinks]] - [[Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than ever before, so that you can stand up taller than you ever were before]] - [[Sometimes you have to stop staring at your problems and start seeing how beautiful life really is]] - [[Sometimes you need to give yourself a break when you’ve had a lot of life change]] - [[Start every day with a new hope, leave bad memories behind, and have faith for a better tomorrow]] - [[Start from wherever you are. That's fine, you're not late]] - [[Stop looking back on your life journey. You’ve been there, done all that; so now it’s time to move ahead and look forward to better things]] - [[Stop wandering about]] - [[Success is the lifelong experiment of discovering what makes you feel most alive]] - [[Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher]] - [[Taking control of your focus also means taking control of your life. If you let others control your focus, you let them control your life as well]] - [[The ascent is optional, the descent mandatory]] - [[The best thing to hold onto in life is each other]] - [[The closer we get to realizing our dreams, the more our personal legend becomes our reason to live]] - [[The darkest hour is the one right before dawn]] - [[The goal of a personal organization system is to organize everything that you do for your life and work]] - [[The greatest lie we tell ourselves is I have time]] - [[The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world]] - [[The longer the time horizon, the more ambitious your goals should be]] - [[The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life]] - [[The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away]] - [[The more options you have, the less likely you’ll choose any of them, and the less satisfied you'll be with your choice]] - [[The more we look back, wondering what might have been, the less we are living for today]] - [[The most important thing in life is to find your gift. The most important thing in life is to be true to that gift, and to do it every day for the rest of your life]] - [[The most powerful life hack is to be kind to people]] - [[The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything]] - [[The one change that has improved my life the most has been to increasingly replace my opinions with curiosity]] - [[The power of having dreams is that they enable us to leave behind a legacy and impact others with our vision]] - [[The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are]] - [[The quality of your mind is the quality of your life]] - [[The secret of Knowledge Management is understanding that it's, first and foremost, a practice that needs to be fully integrated in your life & work before you can reap the benefits]] - [[The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times]] - [[The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself]] - [[The world just reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments. To a tree, there is no concept of right or wrong, good or bad]] - [[There is no passion to be found playing small, and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living]] - [[There's no point in making a good choice poorly]] - [[Think about the positives in your life as soon as you wake up. You may have a long day ahead, but positive thinking will set you straight]] - [[Think of you life as an experiment]] - [[This could be the last time you do something]] - [[Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind]] - [[To be alive is to know ghosts]] - [[To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable]] - [[To live alone is the fate of all great souls]] - [[To write is to love life]] - [[Today is the youngest you'll ever be again]] - [[Too many people bring the best of themselves to work, and bring the leftovers home]] - [[Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value]] - [[Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate]] - [[We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one]] - [[We are at the very beginning of time for the human race]] - [[We can't escape the prison that our mind sometimes feels like. But by learning and exploring our creativity, we can make it as big as we want and never see its limits]] - [[We cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt]] - [[We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen]] - [[What got you here won't get you there]] - [[What we need are few. What we want are many]] - [[What you seek is seeking you]] - [[When giving your wife or kids a kiss, repeat to yourself, I am kissing a mortal]] - [[When I give you my time, I'm giving you a portion of my life that I will never get back. Please don't make me regret it]] - [[When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile and laugh. Stay strong]] - [[When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen]] - [[When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting]] - [[When you are in your own lane there is no traffic]] - [[When you die you are not there anymore to experience the nothingness that you often picture death to be like]] - [[Winners who come from behind, are winners nonetheless]] - [[With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy]] - [[Work to live. Don't live to work]] - [[Working hard is only okay if it doesn't prevent you from living your best life]] - [[You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire]] - [[You always have a choice. To be a victim or to take responsibility for your life and show appreciation for everything you have. You get to choose how to live your life]] - [[You are a child of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here]] - [[You can be anything but you can’t be everything]] - [[You can do anything but not everything]] - [[You can have anything you want, but not everything]] - [[You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf]] - [[You either die a hypocrite or live long enough to see yourself become a hypocrite]] - [[You have to trust in something. Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life]] - [[You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible]] - [[You only got one life. No replays]] - [[You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough]] - [[You waste years of your life when you keep thinking you have time]] - [[You'll never not be afraid]] - [[Your life is your own project. Personal responsibility isn't blame. It's liberation]] - [[Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are]] - [[Your mind is only as strong as your mission is clear]] - [[Your mission is to be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear]] - [[Your normal day is someone else's dream]] - [[Your pain is valid even though others have it worse. Your joy is beautiful even though others have it better]] - [[Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes]]