Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
Oli Anderson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.”
“This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.”
“Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.”
“Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and place.”
“The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible; the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.”
“Idealism + Inaction = Depression”
“There are two types of 'busy': 1) Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.”
“Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so is through action.”
“If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.”
“The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.”
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