Damn. The pro of being with someone for more than half your life is that they know you better than you know yourself. The con of being with someone for more than half your life is that they know you better than you know yourself.
– from Black Buck book by Mateo Askaripour
Category: Quotes
There is really no such thing …
There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love. There are conditions and there is love. When you talk about love, it has to be unconditional. The moment there is a condition, it just amounts to a transaction. Maybe a convenient transaction, maybe a good arrangement, but that will not fulfill you or transport you to another dimension. It is just convenient. Love need not necessarily be convenient; most of the time it is not. It takes life. You have to invest yourself.
– from Inner Engineering book by Sadhguru
If you are careful, if you …
If you are careful, if you use good ingredients, and you don’t take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
– from The World According to Garp book by John Irving
When powerful countries have disputes, they …
When powerful countries have disputes, they don’t get their lawyers to plead their cases to judges. Instead, they threaten each other and either reach agreements or fight. The international order follows the law of the jungle much more than it follows international law.
– from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
A crash at the beginning of …
A crash at the beginning of your investing life is a gift. In fact, any pullback in stock prices is a gift while you are in the process of accumulating your wealth. It allows you to buy more shares for your dollars, on sale if you will.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
To me, America is about empowering …
To me, America is about empowering true innovators (like founders), true risk-takers (like investors), true thinkers (like professors), and true elected leaders over the bureaucratic intermediaries who are hired to “manage” them all.
– from Woke, Inc. book by Vivek Ramaswamy
Mom’s watching me and I’m watching …
Mom’s watching me and I’m watching her and that’s how it always is. We’re always connected. Intertwined. One.
– from I’m Glad My Mom Died book by Jennette McCurdy
Sometimes, even when you start with …
Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.
– from Book Lovers book by Emily Henry
Something like 90 percent of humans …
Something like 90 percent of humans ingest caffeine regularly, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, and the only one we routinely give to children (commonly in the form of soda). Few of us even think of it as a drug, much less our daily use of it as an addiction. It’s so pervasive that it’s easy to overlook the fact that to be caffeinated is not baseline consciousness but, in fact, an altered state. It just happens to be a state that virtually all of us share, rendering it invisible.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan
There are certain steps you take …
There are certain steps you take in life that you can’t easily turn back from. So take them with care. You don’t want to make a fool of yourself.
– from The Man Who Died Twice book by Richard Osman