Top 40 Babauta Quotes
#1. Leo Babauta's brilliant little book Zen Habits helps you think your way through this problem. His program is simple: Attempt to create only one significant work a year.
Seth Godin
#2. At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.
Leo Babauta
#3. Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a straw like a spitball.
Ann Brashares
#4. The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. - Socrates
Leo Babauta
#5. You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Mario Cuomo
#6. Doing a huge number of things doesn't mean you're getting anything meaningful done.
Leo Babauta
#7. We may feel productive when we're constantly switching between things, constantly doing something, but in all honesty, we're not. We're just distracted.
Leo Babauta
#9. The comfort of certainty and perfection vs. the fear of uncertainty and being suboptimal. This is the struggle.
Let me let you in on a secret: no one is free from this struggle.
Leo Babauta
#10. Find a quiet place, and just read. If you're reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader.
Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.
Leo Babauta
#11. Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if ... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.
Georges Braque
#13. On the topic of exercise, It's just as important as brushing your teeth everyday, more important than watching TV or reading online or answering email. Make time for something so crucial to a good life.
Leo Babauta
#14. If you can focus on doing things that make you happy, you'll have less of a need for stuff.
Leo Babauta
#15. Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone's life
Leo Babauta
#16. Happiness isn't in the future, it's not somewhere else. It's available right inside us, right now, all the time.
Leo Babauta
#17. Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you're doing.
Leo Babauta
#18. The beginning is half of every action. Greek Proverb
Leo Babauta
#19. The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
Leo Babauta
#20. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life." - Wu-Men
Leo Babauta
#21. The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein
#22. You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
Lord Hailsham
#23. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
Leo Babauta
#25. Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you're left only with what you love, with what's necessary, with what makes you happy.
Leo Babauta
#26. Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.
Leo Babauta
#27. Only one in four has a chance at making it ... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me. I was going to live. I was the guy.
Anthony Bourdain
#28. The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. - Goethe
Leo Babauta
#29. Keep it simple, and focus on what you have to do right now, not on playing with your system or your tools.
Leo Babauta
#30. My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour.
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Sometimes hard stuff needs to be done in order to make the stuff you love possible
Leo Babauta
#32. Anytime you need me, just call. I'll stop everything for you. Any fucking thing on this earth.
Kenya Wright
#33. What do you have in mind?" I put my hands in my pockets and put my arrogant mask back on. "What I've always been good at.
Marie Lu
#35. Now I have a tiny bit of knowledge, but more interestingly, a bit of an awareness of my vast ignorance. This is humbling, and at the same time exciting, because it shows how amazing this world is.
Leo Babauta
#36. Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference
Leo Babauta
#37. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
Leo Babauta
#38. In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.
Frederick Exley
#39. As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.
Christian Kane
#40. Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
Leo Babauta
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