"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but it's not always a smooth ride."
- Warren Buffet
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness"
"Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of infinite possibilities."
- Austin Kleon
"If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it."
- Ralph Emerson
"Since ultimately people heal themselves with or without the tool of psychotherapy, why is it that so few do and so many do not? Since the path of spiritual growth, albeit difficult, is open to all, why do so few choose to travel it?'
- M. Scott Peck
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool"
- Richard Feynman
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
- T.S. Eliot
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live—that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea...”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
"Do what you feel in your heart is right, for you will be criticized anyway"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"
- Lao Tzu
"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all wthin yourself, in your way of thinking"
- Marcus Aurelius
"There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment. Your colleague outperforms you at work. His wife, however, is having an affair, while your marriage is stable and happy. Who has it better? The celebrity you admire is a chronic drunk driver and bigot. Is his life truly preferable to yours?"
- Jordan Peterson
"Don't destroy yourself in pursuit of expediting the inevitable"
"The cost of procrastination is the life you could've lived"
“To know all is to forgive all.”
"It is often the case that children who grew up in these types of chaotic, unstable environments find some semblance of identity and emotional security by taking on one or more family roles, such as the hero, the scapegoat, the rebel, the caretaker, or the clown. But in unconsciously disconnecting from our true self in order to emotionally survive, we may later find ourselves as adults people-pleasing others and hiding behind a facade, with no idea how to express and live our truth."
“Boundaries allow us to conserve our emotional energy. Your self-esteem and identity can be impacted, and you build resentment toward others because of an inability to advocate for yourself"
- Justin Baksh
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
- General Obregon
“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
- Alfred Adler
“The child that is not accepted by the village will burn it down to feel it’s warmth”
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever"