Inspiration Bot

Don't let a title become a trap.


"I have to be a doctor." "I need to get into that school." "I can't quit this job—it's Google."

There are many ways to live an amazing life. Stop thinking about the status of this particular title and focus on the substance of what you want. You’ll often find there are many ways to get similar amounts of joy, purpose, or freedom.

If you attach your happiness to a single path, you'll become blind to other wonderful opportunities around you. And many of them might be a better fit for you or deliver a similar result with less struggle.~ James Clear

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
~ Madam C.J. Walker

The bad news is time flies.

The good news is you're the pilot.
~ Michael Altshuler

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
~ William James

The bad news is time flies.

The good news is you're the pilot.
~ Michael Altshuler

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
~ Madam C.J. Walker

The bad news is time flies.

The good news is you're the pilot.
~ Michael Altshuler

The person who learns the most in any classroom is the teacher.

If you really want to learn a topic, then “teach” it. Write a book. Teach a class. Build a product. Start a company.

The act of making something will force you to learn more deeply than reading ever will.
~ James Clear

What we do for ourselves dies with us - what we do for others remains and is immortal.
~ Albert Pike

What we do for ourselves dies with us - what we do for others remains and is immortal.
~ Albert Pike

If you look for evidence that people are conspiring to hold you back and the world is working against you, then it will take you no time at all to find precisely that.

If you expect to encounter helpful people and experience a world that is working with you, then you find plenty of evidence to support that view as well.

The raw material for a sweet life or a bitter life is always there. The story you emphasize is the one you notice.
~ James Clear

Surround yourself with people who have the same goals as you.

Rise together.
~ James Clear

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
~ Walter Winchell

Surround yourself with people who have the same goals as you.

Rise together.
~ James Clear

Happiness is a warm puppy.
~ Charles M. Schulz

You can choose a ready guide

In some celestial voice

If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears

And kindness that can kill

I will choose a path that’s clear

I will choose free will.
~ Rush (rock band)

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
~ Omar Khayyam

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~ Mother Teresa

Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember:
Getting started changes everything.
~ James Clear

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
~ Thomas A. Edison

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
~ Bo Bennett

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson