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“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

“You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

“Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Avoid career traps such as pursuing jobs that require you to sell your limited supply of time while preparing you for nothing better.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“Pessimism is often a failure of imagination.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“I learned to lose myself so effortlessly in the breathing that I sometimes had the feeling that I myself was not breathing but—strange as this may sound—being breathed.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep thinking.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“We call such institutions, which have opposite properties to those we call inclusive, extractive economic institutions—extractive because such institutions are designed to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society to benefit a different subset.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt is poor. Countries such as Great Britain and the United States became rich because their citizens overthrew the elites who controlled power and created a society where political rights were much more broadly distributed, where the government was accountable and responsive to citizens, and where the great mass of people could take advantage of economic opportunities.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

“It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.”
― Rollo May, Love and Will

“The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.”
― Rollo May, Love and Will

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." -Rollo May”
― Rollo May

“You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. [ Brihadaranyaka IV.4.5 ]”
― Anonymous, The Upanishads

“He who is rich in the knowledge of the Self does not covet external power or possession.”
― Paramananda, The Upanishads

“There is no joy in the finite; there is joy only in the Infinite.”
― Anonymous, The Upanishads

“To darkness are they doomed who worship only the body, and to greater darkness they who worship only the spirit.”
― Swami Prabhavananda, The Upanishads

“do it or don't do it but get on with it...”
― J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
― J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

“When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”
― Krishnamurti