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“It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, mankind harbors the perception that says "I did it" (paraphrased)”
― Veda Vyasa, Bhagvad Gita: English

“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
― Proverbs 3:13

“With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love”
― Rumi

“He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true self. His search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true self. The true self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“Shortcuts usually grease the rails to disappointing outcomes.”
― John Neff, John Neff on Investing

“People in Congress are in a business; they’re trying to buy votes; they’re in the business of competing with one another to get elected. The same Congressman will vote for a different thing if he thinks that’s politically profitable. You don’t have to change Congress. People have a great misconception in this way. They think the way you solve things is by electing the right people. It’s nice to elect the right people but that isn’t the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things!”
― Milton Friedman

“No mask like open truth to cover lies,
As to go naked is the best disguise.”
― William Congreve

“A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.”
― Milton Friedman

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner

“Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Not accepting responsibility and being powerless are two sides of the same coin: once we accept responsibility, we become powerful.”
― Charles Hugh Smith, Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Charles A. Beard

“It’s been said that whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. A large sum of cash can create illusions of endless wealth, especially if it’s a new experience.”
― Taylor Larimore, The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“By refusing to say ‘It is,’ you are refusing to say ‘I am.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It’s not that the means corrupt the ends. It’s that the ends never work, and that’s why they need brutal means.”
― Johan Norberg

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Bad writers tend to have self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt.”
― Charles Bukowski

“It (balancing the budget) is like protecting your virtue, you have to learn to say no!”
― Ronald Reagan

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture,
an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“It is not without good reason said, that he who has not good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying”
― Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Tall claims warrant great skepticism”
― Shrehith Karkera

“The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs – the chicken is involved; the pig is committed.”
― Martina Navratilova

“Man lives and evolves by 'eating' significance, as a child eats food. The deeper his sense of wonder, the wider his curiosity, the stronger his vitality becomes, and the more powerful his grip on his own existence.”
― Colin Wilson