“The will to live is not the will to live at any cost; it is the will to live this life.”
Nassim Taleb · Paraphrased from Stoic philosophy
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“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Lose money once with real skin in the game and you'll understand risk better than a hundred free articles could teach you.”
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“The lesson you pay for is the one you actually keep.”
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“Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to take advice.”
Ecclesiastes 4:13 · Book of Ecclesiastes, Hebrew Bible
“Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.”
Proverbs 16:31 · Book of Proverbs, Hebrew Bible
“The unlived life is always better because it never has to survive contact with living.”
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“Some things are worth more after they've been broken. The repair is the evidence that they were worth saving.”
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“The break is part of the object's story. Making it invisible doesn't heal it. It just makes you carry it alone.”
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Socrates · Attributed in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching
“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:34 · The Bible, English Standard Version
