“It’s better to do less than you hoped than nothing at all. No zero days.”
James Clear, Blog
“Build before you have to. Build knowledge before you have to. Build strength before you have to. Build an emergency fund before you have to. Let internal pressure drive you today, so you can handle external pressure tomorrow.”
James Clear, Blog
“If you can find love in a supermarket early in the morning, you know you can trust it.”
Lexi, Modern Love
“Optimism is usually defined as a belief that things will go well. But that’s incomplete. Sensible optimism is a belief that the odds are in your favor, and over time things will balance out to a good outcome even if what happens in between is filled with misery. And in fact you know it will be filled with misery. You can be optimistic that the long-term growth trajectory is up and to the right, but equally sure that the road between now and then is filled with landmines, and always will be. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.”
Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
“Reality is neutral. Our reactions reflect back and create our world. Judge, and feel separate and lonely. Anger, and lose peace of mind. Cling, and live in anxiety. Fantasize, and miss the present. Desire, and suffer until you have it. Heaven and hell are right here, right now.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“Morality and ethics automatically emerge when we realize the long term consequences of our actions.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is one word: accept.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“Love is given, not received.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“To be honest, speak without identity.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we’re not clear about which is the one we care about.”
Naval Ravikant, Medium
“Time ripens desires. It validates desires. Maybe you sort of feel like eating a cookie right now. If you get distracted, you’ll most likely lose your desire for that cookie. It didn’t stand the test of time. But when there’s something you want that you’ve kept on wanting for a long time, even if you’ve forgotten how much you want it, then that’s something you really want. And that will be something that will really satisfy you when you get it.”
Mira Kirshenbaum, The Gift of a Year (Page 67)
“There was so much in my life I cared about—and of course I really loved being a therapist. But on another level there wasn’t anything in it I wanted just for me. It was as if my life had turned into a motel room and the truth was I could walk out of it without any sense that I was leaving anything of my own behind. A stranger could easily move into my life, and nothing would be different. I was happy as long as I didn’t think about who I was and what I really wanted for myself.”
Mira Kirshenbaum, The Gift of a Year (Page 44)
“The people in your life are truly interested in your being happy. The confusing thing is that they don’t go around advertising this. Your boss, your kids, your husband mostly talk about how they need this and they need that from you. But when you’re unhappy, a part of their world collapses. So if you have to shuffle your priorities around and put someone last who’s been coming first, and some of the people in your life start giving you grief, just remember how happy they’ll be when you’re happy.”
Mira Kirshenbaum, The Gift of a Year (Page 37)