At random meetings or readings,

A phrase, sometimes, resonates in us,

Finding an echo, a conjecture,

Who, straight away, pick locks.

Below is a collection of those change phrases that open the mind, invite thought, and trigger.

« It is often said that the expression “Life is too short” is a joke, but this time it is true. We don’t have enough time to be both miserable and mediocre. Not only does it mean nothing, but it is also painful » Seth Godin will say too

« How can a dream turn into a project?

By setting the date » A. Bennani

« There is no point in reading a restaurant menu over and over again, what matters is sitting down to the table » Matthieu Ricard

« Don’t judge each day by the harvest you make, but by the seeds you sow » Robert Louis Stevenson

« The human being lives with the notion of maybe a day in the back of his head and thinks that life will choose on its own. […] One day, you wake up wondering: “What the hell happened? »  Hal Elrod

« One of the saddest things is looking back after life is over, knowing that you could have been, done and had so much more. » Robin Sharma

« On the one hand, we all want to be happy and, on the other hand, we all know what makes us happy. But we don’t do what makes us happy. Why? It’s simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. » Matthew Kelly

« The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist hopes it will change, the realist adjusts his sails » William Arthur Ward

« Life is not a restaurant but a buffet. Stand up to serve you. ” Dominique Glocheux

« What you think is amplified » Wayne W. Dyer

« We solve the problems that arise and not the problems that arise » Henri Poincaré

« The way we see the problem is the problem » Stephen Covey

« Gifts only arrive in open hands » A. Bennani

« By dint of sacrificing the essential for the urgent, we forget the urgency of the essential » Edgar Morin

« We should use the past as a trampoline, not a sofa » Harold Macmillan

« Aim for the moon, if you miss it you’ll at least hit the stars » Dominique Glocheux

« The best way to predict the future is to invent it » Alan Kay

« The regret that men have for the bad use of time that they have already lived does not always lead them to make better use of what remains to them. ». La Bruyère

« You can never predict the results of an action. But if you do nothing there will be no results.  Gandhi

« If you improve the present, what comes next will also be better. ” Paulo Coelho

 « Sometimes the Warrior of Light feels like he is living two lives at the same time.

In one, he is forced to do whatever he doesn’t want, to fight for ideas he doesn’t believe in. But there is another life, and he discovers it in his dreams, his readings, his encounters with beings who think like him.

The warrior allows his two lives to come together. “There is a bridge that connects what I do and what I would like to do,” he thinks. Little by little, his dreams invade his routine, until he feels ready for what he has always wanted.

So all it takes is a little daring, and the two lives become one. » Paulo Coleho, Handbook of the Warrior of Light.