Top 41 Leo Babauta Quotes
#1. 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
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#2. Kicking the proverbial can down the road only increases the size of the can.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.
Rick Warren
#5. 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.
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#6. I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#7. 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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#8. what to do with her. She'd rebelled because she'd wanted their attention. Any of their attention. All of their
Karen Rose Smith
#9. Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.
Maureen McCormick
#10. The things that matter most should never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. - Goethe
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#11. 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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#12. Sometimes hard stuff needs to be done in order to make the stuff you love possible
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#14. 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.
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#15. Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference
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#16. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
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#17. Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
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#19. 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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#21. Do you think ... "
He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?"
"That Valentine might have drowned?"
"Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Doing a huge number of things doesn't mean you're getting anything meaningful done.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
Barry Neil Kaufman
#26. Out of her mouth came a stream of discrete, miraculous gadgets - tiny but mobile creatures so intricately small that generations marveled and would go on marveling at how the inventor ever got the motors into them.
Richard Powers
#27. 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.
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#28. At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.
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#29. 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
#30. 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.
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#31. It's like watching some rare exotic butterfly. Pleasant to watch, but you can't touch it, for as soon as you do, it dies, it's brilliance gone.
Haruki Murakami
#32. If you can focus on doing things that make you happy, you'll have less of a need for stuff.
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#33. 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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#34. Happiness isn't in the future, it's not somewhere else. It's available right inside us, right now, all the time.
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#35. 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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#36. Growing up with my father's legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#37. Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.
Jay Leno
#38. The beginning is half of every action. Greek Proverb
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#39. Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.
Mary Burton Maggie Watson
#40. 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.
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#41. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life." - Wu-Men
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