Stop thinking about what your money can buy. Start thinking about what your money can earn. And then think about what the money it earns can earn. Once you begin to do this, you’ll start to see that when you spend money, not only is that money gone forever, the money it might have earned is gone as well. And so on.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
Our lives are literally on loan …
Our lives are literally on loan to us. Despite what we think in our youth, none of us have all that much time.
– from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book by Lori Gottlieb
Everything changes; it rises, and it …
Everything changes; it rises, and it falls. Nothing and no one is immune to the entropy of the universe.
– from Will book by Will Smith
Humans were always far better at …
Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.
– from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari
The world is full of power …
The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.
– from Snow Crash book by Neal Stephenson
A mind kept wide open will …
A mind kept wide open will take something from every new experience.
– from Range book by David Epstein
Me, I love surprises. I love …
Me, I love surprises. I love it when life pulls a rabbit out of a hat. […] But some people just don’t like being caught off guard – even by good news.
– from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Many religions praise the value of …
Many religions praise the value of humility – but then imagine themselves to be the most important thing in the universe. They mix calls for personal meekness with blatant collective arrogance. Humans of all creeds would do well to take humility more seriously.
– from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari
People who start at the top …
People who start at the top never understand what they missed at the bottom. The guy who started by sorting the mail, or cleaning the restaurant late at night, or fixing the equipment at the gym, that’s the guy who knows how things get done. After he’s eventually worked his way up through the ranks, he knows how everything works, why it works, what to do when it stops working. That’s the guy who will have longevity and value and impact, because he knows what it took to get to the top. You can’t claim you ran a marathon if you started at the seventeenth mile.
– from Relentless book by Tim Grover
Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed …
Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever? Keep in mind that the earth itself is destined to be destroyed by the sun in twenty-five million years or so.
– from Catch-22 book by Joseph Heller