I do not adjust myself to please the world. I am myself wherever I am, and I let the world adjust.
– from Untamed book by Glennon Doyle
People universally tend to think that …
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
– from Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert
If you have money you have …
If you have money you have risk. You don’t get to choose not to have risk, you only get to choose what kind.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
When a thousand people believe some …
When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month – that’s fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years – that’s a religion.
– from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari
That’s what I love about New …
That’s what I love about New York. You’re never the weirdest person in the room.
– from Book Lovers book by Emily Henry
Living in the past was a …
Living in the past was a little like living underwater and breathing through a tube.
– from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King
The technology war is much more …
The technology war is much more serious than the trade/economic war because whoever wins the technology war will probably also win the military wars and all the other wars.
– from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
A man without a mustache is …
A man without a mustache is exposed and vulnerable, like an unbaptized child, the soul still in jeopardy.
– from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
The first people to break the …
The first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
Life is like an extremely difficult …
Life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.
– from Ready Player Two book by Ernest Cline