“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think.” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Yesterday I was clever; I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise; I will only change myself." - Rumi
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice" - Henry Ford
"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."
“I will go as far as I can see, and when I get there I will go further.”
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.” - Andrew Carnegie
"In a public debate, it is the one whose intelligence is closest to that of the audience who wins." - Nassim Taleb
"Rule number one:
Most things will prove to be cyclical.
Rule number two:
Some of the greatest opportunities for gain or loss come when other people forget rule one." - Howard Marks
"If you don't know why you believe what you believe, it's not your belief; it's someone else's."
"True scientists look for evidence to disprove their hypotheses, but pseudoscience looks for evidence to support it" - Karl Popper
"The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily." - Charlie Munger
'You could be good today. But instead, you choose tomorrow.' - Marcus Aurelius
"There are people who live their whole lives with a single moment of memory."
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness." - George Saunders
“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don't worry about regret as you'll know it on your last day on earth, when the person you became meets the person you could have become."
"To be, or not to be: that is the question." - William Shakespeare
“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure—as a mere automation of duty.” - Nietzsche
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name." - Confucius
"To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard" - Allen Ginsberg
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Ralph Marston
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." -George Bernard Shaw
"I have offended God and Mankind, by doing so little with my life." - Leonardo Da Vinci (on his deathbed)
"If having more money wouldn't change what you do, then you're rich."
"The path to mediocrity is paved with platitudes." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
