- “What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust.” – Satoshi Nakamoto
- “If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack. If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have.” – Greg Mckeown
- “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Through love all pain will turn to medicine.” – Rumi
- “It is health that is the real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “A successful partnership doesn’t indicate that a couple have figured out how to avoid all fights; rather, it shows that they have undertaken any necessary rewiring and become adept at the art of fighting well.”
- “The curious part is that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change.” – CarlRogers
- “I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening. I never learned anything while I was talking.” – Larry King
- “If you absolutely cant tolerate the critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “Life is a series of choices and deciding which parts of your programming you let sing and which ones you deny.”
- “In an age of permissionless leverage, judgement, not work, determines success and failure. Good judgement is the product of a calm and curious mind, reasoning without motivation and attachment. Whatever strengthens your ego weakens your judgement, and ultimately, your success.” – Naval Ravikant
- “Consult your resentment. It is revelatory.” – Jordan Peterson
- “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” – Kurt Cobain
- “Words are beautiful but actions are supreme.” – Che Guevera
- “The affect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Because everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart and the only thing that will be left is what is in your heart.” – Jim Carrey
- “Our eyes are not viewers, they’re also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see all the time. Fear is writing that script. The working title is: I’ll never be enough.”
- “As far as I can tell, its about letting the universe know what you want, while letting go of how it comes pass. Your job is not figure out how it’s going to happen. Just open the door in your head and when it opens in real life, just walk through it. And don’t worry if you miss your cue, because there’s always doors opening.”
- “The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.” – Shantaram
- If you listen to successful people explain their methods, remember all the ppl who used the same methods and failed didn’t talk about it publicly
- You have vanishingly little political influence and every thought you spend on politics will probably amount to nothing. Consider building things instead or taking a meditative walk
- “Here and now boys.” “Attention, Attention.” – The Birds on Polynesia, The Island by Aldous Huxley
- Protocols are the digital plumbing of the internet, the pipes your emails travel through, the tunnels your voice travels through to people on other side of the world
- “Remind me to write a column on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of 5 million strangers. The title is Gossip Gone Wild.” – Jubel Horshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land
- “You can only control your child so much, right? At some point you need to set them free and let them go and hope that the way you brought them up, and the values you taught them, are going to stick with them and they’re going to do the right thing.” – Maia, Vitalik’s mom, Out of the Ether
- “We have the tools now to change the story of money.” – Griff Green, Out of the Ether
- “Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing.” = “the trance of unworthiness” – trapped and unable to perceive the truth of who we really are, Radical Acceptance
- Perhaps the biggest tragedy in our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. – Radical Acceptance
- The more deeply we feel flawed and unlovable, the more desperately we run from the clutches of the shadow. Yet by running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness.” – Radical Acceptance
- “Men do not learn much from history, and that, is the most important lesson of all.” – The Island, Aldous Huxley
- “Do as little as needed, not as much as possible.” – Hank Krygenov, olympic track coach
- “Until death, it is all life.”
- You cant connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect the dots looking backwards so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future; you have to trust in something…believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference- Steve Jobs
- Give yourself the time and space to develop your contribution to the world vs comparing and looking at what others are doing; hyper connectivity detracts from that and results take long time and hard work
- “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you want to become.” – James Clear
- “Expectation is the grandfather of disappointment. The world can never own a man who wants nothing.”
- People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they want. “We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.” – The old camel driver, The Alchemist
- Judgment is more powerful than hard work; hard work is important to the extent it builds up judgment but once you have the judgment, you should be saying no all the time; Judgment is acquired through experience. – Naval Ravikant
- “Life is the obstacles, there is no underlying path.” – Janna Levin
- Make your life your argument. – Jessica Lahey
- Less impressed, more involved—become less impressed with yourself, your things, your job, your life and more involved in everything thats happening. – Matt McConaughey, Greenlights
- People who believe in themselves want to survive; initially this is a visual choice–the where, what, who and when to our why; upon closer inspection, we learn to measure people on the competence of their values that we most value…when we do this the politics of gender, race, and slang take a back seat to the values. MMC, Greenlights
- Parenting & Kids – Rather than cover your kids eyes from ugly truths, cover their eyes from fictional fantasies that will handicap their ability to negotiate tomorrows reality, I believe they can handle it. Its hard to find constants, natural laws, universal truths in life but when we have kids there is no intellectual discussion or philosophy of how to or how much to love, protect and guide them, its an instinctual commitment, an immediate, infinite and ever-growing responsibility, a privilege, a greenlight. MMC, Greenlights
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