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“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
― Ann Wigmore

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“It is far more common for people to allow ego to stand in the way of learning.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

“Having the basics—a good bed to sleep in, good relationships, good food, and good sex—is most important, and those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the people one meets at the top aren’t necessarily more special than those one meets at the bottom or in between.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“the happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Imagine that in order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? Take a moment to think about it because it is the sort of choice that, in one form or another, we all have to make.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“If you can’t successfully do something, don’t think you can tell others how it should be done”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“The greatest gift you can give someone is the power to be successful. Giving people the opportunity to struggle rather than giving them the things they are struggling for will make them stronger.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“It’s more important to do big things well than to do the small things perfectly.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed—but that won’t be true unless you give up.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“The most valuable habit I’ve acquired is using pain to trigger quality reflections. If you can acquire this habit yourself, you will learn what causes your pain and what you can do about it, and it will have an enormous impact on your effectiveness.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what’s true. If you are too proud of what you know or of how good you are at something you will learn less, make inferior decisions, and fall short of your potential.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“The most important thing is that you develop your own principles and ideally write them down, especially if you are working with others.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“I also feared boredom and mediocrity much more than I feared failure. For me, great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives life flavor. The high school yearbook quote my friends chose for me was from Thoreau: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Remember that most people are happiest when they are improving and doing the things that suit them naturally and help them advance. So learning about your people’s weaknesses is just as valuable (for them and for you) as is learning their strengths.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Thoughtful disagreement is not a battle; its goal is not to convince the other party that he or she is wrong and you are right, but to find out what is true and what to do about it.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Remember that in great partnerships, consideration and generosity are more important than money.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).”
― Ray Dalio

“I also feared boredom and mediocrity much more than I feared failure.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“The people who work for you should constantly challenge you,”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Having nothing to hide relieves stress and builds trust.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Never say anything about someone that you wouldn’t say to them directly and don’t try people without accusing them to their faces.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life