Natacha Pierre

“Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The key is making your inner thoughts more real than the outer environment, because then the brain won’t know the difference between the two and will change to look as if the event has taken place. If you’re able to do this successfully enough times, you’ll transform your body and begin to activate new genes in new ways, producing epigenetic changes—just as though the imagined future event were real. And then you can walk right into that new reality and become the placebo.”
― Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

“In a social media–centered society, we’ve all been rendered at once cult leader and follower.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.1”
― Srikumar S. Rao, Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success