Matt Best
Matt Best

QUESTIONS AND QUOTES FOR LIFE

 

Questions for life

  • If your house were on fire and all of your possessions were inside, and you knew that you could rush back in one time and survive, what would you grab?

  • Do you struggle focusing for long periods of time?

  • Have you ever tried to meditate?

  • Have you reflected on and confronted your insecurities?

  • How much do you sleep?

  • What are you grateful for?

  • Can we be certain of the existence of God? And if so, how?

  • Does diet have a significant impact on mood and psychological states?

  • What would you do if your family tragically died tomorrow?

  • Do you depend on caffeine?

  • Do you have your values and goals written down somewhere?

  • Do you have your own protocol for making decisions?

  • What are the things that give you the most meaning in life?

  • Is there something that you want to do but are scared to do right now?

  • Do you embrace struggle and challenge?

  • Do you exercise consistently?

  • What would you do if someone attacked you with a knife? How would you defend yourself?

  • Do you struggle to process and accept negative emotions?

  • Are you primarily motivated by extrinsic things?

  • Can you open your perspective to the rest of the world without traveling and seeing how other people live in different conditions?

  • Do you complain about something at least once a day?

  • Do you have friends with whom your interactions are solely superficial?

  • Do you develop opinions without being fully informed?

  • Are you better at dealing with big concepts or finer details?

  • What would you do if your best friend turned their back on you?

  • If someone asked you any question about your life, could you answer it openly and honestly without feeling shame or guilt?

  • Are you scared of the future?

  • Do you enjoy weekdays as much as weekends?

  • Would your friends say that you are optimistic?

  • Do you have a strong sense of direction in your life?

  • Do you have irrational fears?

  • What would you do if you lost your job tomorrow?

  • Do you enjoy pressure?

  • Is being a perfectionist a net gain?

  • Do you think that you are capable of improving any aspect of yourself and your abilities?

  • How do you manage your time?

  • What is the thing that you tend think about the most?

  • What would you do if you got kicked out of your home/apartment?

  • Do you like losing?

  • What is your most defining characteristic?

  • Do you learn more from failure or from success?

  • What is the best book you’ve ever read? Why?

  • Is learning how to deal with judgement more important than trying to not be judged?

  • Have you tried to improve how you think?

  • Can experiencing pain be good for us?

  • Can experiencing suffering be good for us?

  • Can we understand happiness without sadness?

  • Can we understand success without failure?

  • Are you good at managing yourself in very emotional situations?

  • What do you love the most about yourself?

  • Are you courageous?

  • Do you beat yourself up when you make mistakes?

  • When you make mistakes, is getting down on yourself a productive thing to do?

  • Do you prefer to be busy?

  • Do you take time out of your day to sit with your thoughts and quiet down?

  • What is the most challenging question someone has ever asked you?

  • Who are you?

QUOTES FOR LIFE

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s dedication to a course greater than oneself or as the byproduct of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success; you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  • Victor Frankl

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

  • Dostoevsky

Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.

  • Bismarck

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

  • Spinoza

The best stories are the ones that serve us, not the ones to which we are the servants.

  • Yuval Noah Harari

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  • Confucius

A man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

  • Carlyle

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are. That determines your character.

  • Dale Carnegie

Think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  • Marcus Aurelius