Here’s one I love: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs.

It always motivates me to focus on my passions. What’s a quote that inspires you?

  • @[email protected]
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    "Be the change you want to see in the world.”

    I live by the rule that I imagine everyone doing what I’m doing. If everyone doing it would make the world a worse place, then I don’t do it. Conversely, if it would make the world better, I go for it. This mindset makes even small charitable acts feel meaningful—because while my individual contribution may be minor, if everyone did that little thing too, we’d all be much better off.

  • Dave Coe
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    23 hours ago

    “The injury that is to be done to a man should be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. “

    • Machiavelli
  • SanguinePar
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    54 hours ago

    “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

    David Foster Wallace (although he may have been quoting someone else)

  • @fargeol
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    Better a pig than a fascist

    Porco Rosso

    • Theo
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      54 hours ago

      Oh that reminds me of something funny my old psychiatrist told me: when people complain that everybody hates them, he responds: how can that be true? You haven’t even met everyone yet!

  • @LordCrom
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    95 hours ago

    Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

    – Conan

  • slazer2au
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    44 hours ago

    This too shall pass

  • @AnAustralianPhotographer
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    34 hours ago

    “We choose to go to the moon” was the first thing that popped into my mind.

    And related to OPs quote. “If you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life”.

  • IninewCrow
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    106 hours ago

    “We are made of starstuff” – Carl Sagan

    It’s inspiration to me because it always reminds me of our insignificantly small and momentary place in this universe.

  • Theo
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    55 hours ago

    “If it is too hard to cope with failure, how can you ever be able to handle success?” -Unknown.

  • @MintyFresh
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    Only you can take a sad song and make it better.

  • NullPointer
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    In the end; the universe tends to unfold as it should.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      14 hours ago

      Yes, but how should it? If it ‘should’ have immense amounts of suffering and inequity, that doesn’t sound very comforting.

  • @Zachariah
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    25 hours ago

    “The best way to handle, to take care of the future, is to take care of the present moment.  What else can you do?”

    — Thich Nhat Hanh,  The Art Of Mindful Living

  • @Angrywaffle2
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    36 hours ago

    I don’t ask for permission. I ask for forgiveness.