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Misperception is ”Reality”~
“I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.”
— Unknown
Who You Are, can depend upon Whom You’re With…
“You become what you surround yourself with. Energies are contagious. Choose carefully. Your environment will become you.”
— Unknown
You are my Universe.
You wanna know how I know this?
It’s Because sometimes the Universe doesn’t always open up for me- or tell me what I want to know either…
I met Him- We both just happened to be in Manila~ Philippines, at the same time.
He was doing His Show- & I was working on a documentary about global warming/coral bleaching at the time.
“I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.”
— Anthony Bourdain (via wanderologie-)
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” —Alan Watts
For every problem, a solution already exists.
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
—Wayne Dyer
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
—Marcus Aurelius
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
—Seneca
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
—Seneca
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
—Baruch Spinoza
“Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
—Epictetus
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
—Aristotle
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
—Aristotle
“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
—Aristotle
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
—Aristotle