If, say, all of your money is in one bank, one brokerage, one country, one currency, one asset class, or one fund, you may be playing with a loaded gun. With luck, you can get away with anything in the short term. With time, the odds rise that your vulnerability will be exposed by unforeseen events.
– from Richer, Wiser, Happier book by William Green
Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito …
Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.
– from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
There is actually nothing but this …
There is actually nothing but this moment. No one has ever gone back in time, and no one has ever been able to successfully predict the future in any way that matters. Literally, the only thing that exists is this exact point where you are in space at the exact time you happen to be here.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Welcome to the future. It’s not …
Welcome to the future. It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls.
– from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
One of the most tragic things …
One of the most tragic things that any one of us can do is to put off living. Too many people are dreaming of some magical rose garden on the horizon rather than enjoying the one growing in our backyards. What a tragedy.
– from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book by Robin Sharma
There’s no social disaster that can’t …
There’s no social disaster that can’t be remedied with good manners!
– from The Rose Code book by Kate Quinn
Human beings are evolving into something …
Human beings are evolving into something different. We are becoming a hybrid species – a fusion of biology and technology. The same tools that today live outside our bodies – smartphones, hearing aids, reading glasses, most pharmaceuticals – in fifty years will be incorporated into our bodies to such an extent that we will no longer be able to consider ourselves Homo sapiens.
– from Origin book by Dan Brown
The key to happiness wasn’t being …
The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
– from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
My favorite cure for boredom is …
My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest. My next favorite is coffee.
– from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book by Robert Pirsig
Yoga is not about being superhuman …
Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.
– from Inner Engineering book by Sadhguru