• Don’t aim to get full. Be satisfied.

    6 Steps to Stop Overeating: Mindful Eating Applied

  • “When in prayer, if we don’t feel joy and comfort, as does a little child who runs to its mother’s embrace, then we have either hurt someone through our conduct and harshness, or pride exists in us.”

    —St. Paisios the Athonite

  • “If you’re going to be weird, be confident about it.”  

    —unknown

  • “I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.”    

    —Malcolm Gladwell

  • “Different is better than better.”  

    —Sally 

    “When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.”  

    —James Clear

    “Don’t seek to be the best. Seek to be the only.” 

    —Kevin Kelly

    “They’re not the best at what they do—they’re the only ones that do what they do.”

    —Bill Graham

  • A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away.

    —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • “There is an equality between feeling joy with self-control and suffering pain with self-control.”

    —Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

  • “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was: go slow to go fast. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”

    — Viggo Mortensen

  • For to drink wine with reason is better than to drink water with pride. And, please, look on those who drink wine with reason as holy men and those who drink water without reason as profane men, and no longer blame or praise the material, but count happy or wretched the minds of those who use the material well or ill.

    —Palladius, The Lausiac History

  • You want to finish your rule of prayer quickly, in order to give rest to your weary body? Pray fervently, and you will sleep the most peaceful, quiet, and healthy sleep. Do not hurry, then, nor say your prayers anyhow; by half-an-hour’s prayer you will gain three whole hours of the soundest sleep. Are you hurrying to get to the place of your service or your work? Get up earlier; do not sleep so long; and pray fervently—you will thus obtain tranquillity, energy, and success in your work for the whole day.

    —St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ