Quotes
So in all future events which might induce sadness remember to call on this principle: ’this is no misfortune, but to bear it true to yourself is good fortune.’ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Hating life, despising life—even for the genuine pain that life inflicts—merely serves to make life itself worse, unbearably worse. There is no genuine protest in that. There is no goodness in that, only the desire to produce suffering, for the sake of suffering. That is the very essence of evil. People who come to that kind of thinking are one step from total mayhem. Jordan Peterson
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude towards life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfil the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. Viktor E. Frankl
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. John Locke
Imagine if you worked both smart and hard … Patrick Bet-David
Nonage [Immaturity] is the inability to use one’s own understanding without other’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in the indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) ‘Have the courage to use your own understanding’, is therefore the motto of the Enlightenment. Kant (1784)
Failure is the vehicle for success
Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship Denzel Washington
Don’t go along with things you don’t agree with
If you spend enough time treating people as your enemies, they are going to become your enemies