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Everyone, Someone.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Value is subjective.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Cover, story.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Slow down.
Hierarchy.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Perspective.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The first step is the steepest.
Hare & tortoise.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Builder, investor, trader.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Learning.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The giver is the recipient.
Well done is better than well said.
Alan Watts
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
View reading as an investment.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Building vs. betting.
Chronos, Kairos.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Truth
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Labor, leverage.
You are what you think you are.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Do less, do more.
More ≠ more.
Generalist, specialist.
