The purpose of goals is not to improve the future. The future doesn’t exist. It’s only in our imagination. All that exists is the present moment and what you do in it.

Judge a goal by how well it changes your actions in the present moment. — Derek Sivers

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn.” —Kerouac’s On the Road

"Embrace the nonsense. The sense is overrated” —Jacob Collier

“If you don’t make a space for yourself, no one is going to make it for you.” —Jacob Collier

“Be careful of how you interpret the world; it is like that.” — Erich Heller

“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”

John O’Donohue

“What is the meaning of life? … A simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

— Virginia Woolf

"When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, 'You mean they forget?'" - Howard Ikemoto

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”—Jeffrey Hammerbacher

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." –William James

The only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.

― A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

"We are all divinities, heavily burdened, who could yet see the light." —Leo Ariel

“I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”- Dolly to Anna in Anna Karenina

Stephen Covey Quotes

1)      The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

2)      The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

3)      Live out of your imagination, not your history.