You’re dying and being reborn at every moment. It’s up to you whether to forget or remember that.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Many great men have known prison …
Many great men have known prison life. Either their practical lives began in a prison or ended in it. A prison is no less than a university, where one learns so many secrets of life.
– from An Indian Spy in Pakistan book by Mohanlal Bhaskar
Friends add humor, fascination and beauty …
Friends add humor, fascination and beauty to life. There are few things more rejuvenating than sharing a belly-bursting laugh with an old friend. Friends keep you humble when you get too self-righteous. Friends make you smile when you are taking yourself too seriously. Good friends are there to help you when life throws one of its little curves at you and things look worse than they seem.
– from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book by Robin Sharma
If someone cracks open a door …
If someone cracks open a door that may present an opportunity, dive through it. It doesn’t matter if the opening is the exact opportunity you want. Become useful now, and the opportunities that excite you will appear later. Every great story starts with a tiny crack. Spot it. Dive through it.
– from The 5 Types of Wealth book by Sahil Bloom
It’s been nearly a hundred years …
It’s been nearly a hundred years since the wolf went extinct in most of the United States. You’ve got no idea, none at all, of how dangerous they can be. A wolf can run faster than you can drive a car through most of Chicago. His jaws can snap your thighbones with one jerk. A wolf can see the heat of your body in the complete dark, and can count the hairs on your head from a hundred yards off by starlight. He can hear your heart beating thirty or forty yards away.
– from Fool Moon book by Jim Butcher
Small things make a big difference …
Small things make a big difference. God is in the small things.
– from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
There is no reason to risk …
There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need. It’s one of those things that’s as obvious as it is overlooked.
– from The Psychology of Money book by Morgan Housel
Listen to me, if you’re not …
Listen to me, if you’re not scared, then you’re not living.
– from The Lost Bookshop book by Evie Woods
Happiness to me is mainly not …
Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
America is run from the bottom …
America is run from the bottom up and optimized for the individual; China is run from the top down and optimized for the collective.
– from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio