Steve Jobs – Secrets of Life

So the thing I would say is…

 

When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your… your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life,have fun, save a little money.

Uhh, but life… that’s a very limited life.

 Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is: everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, you can change it, you can mold it.

That’s maybe the most important thing.

It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it,you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

 

So the thing I would say is…

So the thing I would say is…

 

When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your… your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life,have fun, save a little money.

 

Uhh, but life… that’s a very limited life.

 

Life can be much broader once youdiscover one simple fact, and that is: everything around you that you call lifewas made up by people that were no smarter than you.

 

And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

 

And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, you can change it, you can mold it.

 

That’s maybe the most important thing.

 

It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

 

I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways.

 

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil…

“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil,” the man said. “Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck…

“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.You have to participate relentlessly.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore…

they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books,

but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a

fire and tell stories.”

― Paulo Coelho

Everybody has a secret world inside of them.

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody.

All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring

they are on the outside.

Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds…

Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”

 

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”

Bruce Lee : Quotes

”If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life.

It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits.

There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.

A man must constantly exceed his level.”

 

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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” 

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“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” 

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“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

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“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce,

but still only light and flickering.As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals,

deep-burning and unquenchable.” 

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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

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“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

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“Not being tense but ready.

Not thinking but not dreaming.

Not being set but flexible.

Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.

It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.” 

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“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” 

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“As you think, so shall you become.”

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“Now I see that I will never find the light

Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,

Consuming myself.” 

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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” 

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“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.” 

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“If you think a thing is impossible,you’ll only make it impossible.” 

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“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become

natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.” 

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“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”