"You make money to solve your money and material problems. I think the best way to stay away from this constant love of money is to not upgrade your lifestyle as you make money." Naval

“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.” ― Albert Einstein

logged off after reading this

Embrace Tradition and beauty. Reject modernity and the ugliness it brings

Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I wasn’t the fastest guy in the world. I wouldn’t have done well in an Olympiad or a math contest. But I like to ponder. And pondering things, just sort of thinking about it and thinking about it, turns out to be a pretty good approach.’ – Jim Simons.

A friend of mine used to say: "Being humble, hard-working, consistent, and kind is an awfully tough combination to beat." The older I get, the more I realize how rare that is to find and just how right he was. Be that person.

—Mary Oliver, from “I worried”

forgive yourself

One of our greatest intellectual mistakes was to ground the individual psyche in childhood traumas rather than in one's destiny as an adult. Destiny. Fate. Fulfill it or shirk it. That's what literature and life was all about. Until recently. Doscover your part. Play it.

when you realize that routines are actually rituals of devotion to yourself and your dreams they become much easier to follow.

So funny the Dutch and Spanish colonized Taiwan before any Chinese empire laid claim to it.

Sage advice from Warren Buffett:

Kindness is peak human performance and high status. Kindness requires metabolic abundance: the capacity to override primal impulses, regulate emotions, and extend empathy. Meanness is dirty energy: high cortisol, inflammation and an exhausted executive function.

Carl Jung was not playing around when he wrote: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” —Epicurus

Fyodor Dostoevsky was right; “every self-betrayal is a sin. Whenever you go against your nature, your body makes a point to remind you.”