One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
Quotex
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.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
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?"
Feminists hate this. Roofers hate gravity.
Feeling good is not an indicator of the future.
A soul does not learn, it simply remembers what it knew all the time.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.
You need to prove yourself to yourself. Over and over again.
When you adopt an empirical framework, you expose a lot of storytellers
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.
Fate is the sum total of our own stupidity.
Even the paranoid have enemies
Goodbye comes from God be with you.
You don't miss what you've never had.
Once worth north of two billion dollars, Novogratz had been reduced to the ranks of mere centimillionaires.
We don't view things transactionally, we view things relationally