Top 36 Babauta's 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. 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
#3. Doing a huge number of things doesn't mean you're getting anything meaningful done.
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#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.
Rachel
#8. 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
#9. I'm not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn't it a splendid thing that there are mornings?
L.M. Montgomery
#10. At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.
Leo Babauta
#11. The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. - Socrates
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#12. If you can focus on doing things that make you happy, you'll have less of a need for stuff.
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#13. Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone's life
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#14. Happiness isn't in the future, it's not somewhere else. It's available right inside us, right now, all the time.
Leo Babauta
#15. Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you're doing.
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#16. The beginning is half of every action. Greek Proverb
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#17. Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof of the mindstream's capacity to retain knowledge of physical and mental activities. It is related to the theory of interdependent origination and to the law of cause and effect.
Dalai Lama
#18. 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
#19. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life." - Wu-Men
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#20. Sometimes hard stuff needs to be done in order to make the stuff you love possible
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#21. I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters
#22. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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.
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#26. The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. - Goethe
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#27. Keep it simple, and focus on what you have to do right now, not on playing with your system or your tools.
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#28. Better not to exist than live basely.
Sophocles
#31. 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
#32. Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference
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#33. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
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#34. The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#35. Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
Leo Babauta
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