“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. It is easier to wage a battle against distant abstractions than to fight the quiet war inside one’s own soul. Yet this is the only war that ever mattered.”
— Leo Tolstoy
One of the most revolutionary questions in physics was once asked in a simple thought experiment by a teenage Albert Einstein goes like this;
“If I chase a beam of light at the speed of light (c), I should see it as a stationary electromagnetic wave, just oscillating in space.
"El hombre no es nunca feliz, pero se pasa toda la vida corriendo en pos de algo que cree ha de hacerle feliz. Rara vez alcanza su objetivo, y cuando lo logra solamente consigue verse desilusionado.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
― Carl Jung
"It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other