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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #30 on: September 10, 2012, 06:02:07 pm »
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Some quotes from one my absolute favourite philosophers, epicurus. Especially for those of us who aren't religious, meaning isn't readily apparent for us (some people dont care about meaning at all) but i think he's came the closest i've found for a recipe for a good life.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. (This one is a fantastic part of his philosophy. It's a lot deeper than one line as well. Death is nothing. It is the end of experience. It will not be a negative or horrible experience, it will be nothing. You do not experience or live through death. He points out that its almost silly to fear death itself. As long as we exist, we are experiencing things, we are alive. When death comes, it is simply the end of experience, we are not there to go through it. So, we should not live in the shadow of death, we should be mindful of it but not fear it. Make the best life we can out of our short window of experiencing it.)

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

And my own personal favourite:

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

(A lot of his original work has been lost and i don't buy the attribution of one or two of these to him but they're still good quotes none the less)
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #31 on: September 10, 2012, 06:04:45 pm »
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KP I'm lovin' your posts in this thread.
A quote that I can't remember where it's from but reminded me of your favourite one:

Am I rich? I don't know. But I'm valuable.
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2012, 03:54:43 pm »
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http://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/search?q=flair%3A%27Pick-me-up%27&restrict_sr=on (Kanon's sig)
Seasonal bump.
This is it guys.
.5% of all the time you've spent in school remaining.
Right now you can give in to that terrible sucking power that wants you to stop studying and say "Oh I don't care any more" and not make the most of 99.5% of your schooling... or, you can grit it out for 40 more days at the very most and probably 30ish for most of you. You've got a chance that kids would kill for all over the world - what are you going to do with it? The choice is yours.
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #34 on: October 12, 2012, 10:01:43 pm »
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How to be successful?
Here's the recipe!

Grab a good amount of inspiration, mix it with a few cups of curiosity and roll it on a layer of experience. Then add few drops of luck and stir hard with passion. Later, let it cool for a few hours and check the result. If you're not satisfied, repeat everything but now add a pinch of persistence.
Now serve it with exciting! :)

The road to success can't get any more simpler!!

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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #35 on: October 22, 2012, 10:54:53 pm »
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms3uBrjfa80

This video isn't motivation as such, but I found it really great to watch - it puts things in perspective. It's entitled "Live Simply So Other People Can Simply Live."

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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #36 on: November 09, 2012, 10:06:59 pm »
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I LOVE this!
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2012, 11:53:37 pm »
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Night before an exam just before you sleep:

http://iamawesome.com/

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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #38 on: November 21, 2012, 09:40:21 pm »
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You don't need exams for this to be awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hvqFZzbV24
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #39 on: November 21, 2012, 09:44:06 pm »
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You don't need exams for this to be awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hvqFZzbV24
This is a different beat to the TV theme. This is bad and you should feel bad.



JUST KIDDING. Thanks for the link :)
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2013, 10:02:18 pm »
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I couldnt see apple's commercial. Biggest motivation source for me

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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #41 on: January 14, 2013, 12:43:58 am »
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Thanks alperenerol!
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #42 on: February 06, 2013, 10:31:58 pm »
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and my favourite work out inspiration:

typically you want to get off your seat before the end of any of these videos and start doing something
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #43 on: February 06, 2013, 11:14:30 pm »
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Strong post from Nacho
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Re: Motivation Corner!
« Reply #44 on: February 11, 2013, 12:19:02 pm »
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So many tears, but really happy :). At the end of the tunnel there is always light







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