Minimalism: "what am I willing to suffer the pain of having around?"
"If I can't love myself can I really love someone else?"
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
"Success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it."
"delusion of reprive"
"There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose"
"Being a leader means ensuring the success of others"
"My dad took a year off from social interactions. He stopped talking to people, and focused on eating right, and working out. He ended up super ripped and it was sick."
Learn to be super self-critical. Constantly ask yourself why you're doing something. Especially in situations like the party, question the implications of your actions and stop being so naive. What's the purpose? How does someone who doesn't share the same feelings as you do feel? How should someone "not in your situation" feel?
A lot of my struggles come / came from me telling myself I was ready when I wasn't. Even now, telling myself I'll be okay with the facade that I am strong is not right when in reality I am not. It's okay to use the resources and people around me to seek comfort and care.
"You gave me the best gift of all - desperation"
"Tough times go away, tough people don't"
"Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."
"et lux in tensbris lucet"
"No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same."
"you never know. You hope for the best, then make do with what you get."
The story of Death in Teheran
"any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him - mentally and spiritually"
"There is only one thing I dread:. Not to be worthy of my sufferings" - to ponder
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, and kindles the great."
the single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has already taken place
We don't see things the way they are we see the way they are
"Fuck me over dirty I'll do you filthy"
Sub specie aeterniatis
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.
"Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
"Wie viel ist aufzuleiden!"
"Was mich nicht umbringt, mach mich stärker"
Having been is the surest kind of being.
For, in the past, nothing is irretrievably lost but everything is irrevocably stored.
Feat brings about that which one is afraid of, and hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.
Let your success be your greatest revenge
Misery is comfortable
The only difference between good and great is effort
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
If you don't create your own definition of success, someone else will do it for you.
There's no reward for working hard on your deathbed
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's struggle, it takes away today's peace
The present moment is all you will ever have.
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
Why would you not live life on dimension 100?
The meaning of life is mental presence
Amor Fati
Isn’t our life one attempt to fill a void after another?
Life is hard for 2 reasons: You are breaking bad habits or you are still entertaining them.
"We can accept reality as it is and ask “How can I maximize this?”
Just another cold, dark night on the side of Everest
forced solace
I may not be the best anymore, but god damn will I earn my seat at the table
It’s time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions. Who are you? And What do you want?
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
It is the nature of a thing that matters, not its form.
There is no making things right - only better.
Do not be a doormat in submission, but hold the door open in kindness.
The war time season doesn’t happen at home. Get out of home.
The reason to play the games is to be free of it. Either you realize you want to keep playing for the joy of it, or you’re free of wanting to play it anymore, with the knowledge of having been successful at it.
People do sometimes change, but not in relationships and never when they’re told.
What do you do when you’re lost in the woods? You start walking.
Our actions have consequences. To be reminded of them is not punishment.
You are that which you seek.
To grieve deeply is to have loved fully
Everyone wants a village, but nobody wants to be a villager
suffering is what makes us grateful
Someone’s either feeding your fire or smothering it.