Quotex

Quotex

a commonplace book

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Unknown
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What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Terry Pratchett
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G.K. Chesterton
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Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

John Milton
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When it's hour one of 139 hours, and you're lying in the cold water and that first wave goes over you, all that training goes out the window. Your mind goes right to hour 139. When you're taking that nice warm shower the first thing you think is "why the fuck did I quit?"

David Goggins
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Feminists hate this. Roofers hate gravity.

Article
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Feeling good is not an indicator of the future.

Ray Dalio
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A soul does not learn, it simply remembers what it knew all the time.

Daud El Gaffer
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer
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Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.

Game of Thrones
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You need to prove yourself to yourself. Over and over again.

Hidden Brain Podcast
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When you adopt an empirical framework, you expose a lot of storytellers

Unknown
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Never compare yourself to anyone. The second you compare, takes you out of the life you're living. Takes you out of the moment. Comparison steals happiness.

Hidden Brain podcast
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Fate is the sum total of our own stupidity.

A Man Called Ove
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Even the paranoid have enemies

Henry Kissinger
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Goodbye comes from God be with you.

Sam Harris podcast w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You don't miss what you've never had.

Colin Cowherd
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Once worth north of two billion dollars, Novogratz had been reduced to the ranks of mere centimillionaires.

New Yorker Article
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We don't view things transactionally, we view things relationally

family office guy
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