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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Truth, Perception
If it looks simple, it was hard.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You are what you think you are.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Hare & tortoise.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
More moves and less chat.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Comfort vs. pain.
No one is coming to save you.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
View reading as an investment.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Learning.
Creativity before productivity.
Appreciation.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Switching costs.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Distraction.
Labor, leverage.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Chronos, Kairos.
Process vs. plan.
Alan Watts
Said, done.
Truth.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Each man believes only his experience.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You are here.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The giver is the recipient.
Failure = feedback.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Fear is the mind-killer.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
