If you make the acquisition and retention of goods or status your aim in life, this is a way to anxiety and sorrow.  Muso Kokushi

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill.  We traded away stability for growth.  And growth requires change.  Geoffrey West

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity.  Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.   Ryan Lilly

The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by twats you know you are better than.  In reality, you are no better than a hamster running on a wheel.  You could say the hamster likes to run on the wheel, the hamster runs on the wheel by choice.  But do not forget, the hamster is always in a cage and will never be anything else but a hamster running on a wheel inside a cage – unless it escapes the cage.   Robert Black

Do not go where the path may lead. Instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.  Toni Morrison

I must be a mermaid.  I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.  Anais Nin

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.”  Steve Maraboli