And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

-- Charles Bukowski

I have a vision of total victory and nothing else.
It’s the reason I’ve gotten this far.
Defeat has no place in my mind.

- Danny Rand the Immortal Iron Fist -

Confidence starts as a whisper. But the more time you spend, as the most extreme version of yourself, the louder that whisper gets. You hear it in brief moments - in a sprint, in a hard workout. But eventually, it becomes a new voice inside your head. And one day, that voice becomes you.

-- Zach Pogrob

I know of no better life purpose than to perish, attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible should not be a reason to not pursue it. That’s exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk. The only true failure is shrinking away from life’s challenges.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Obsession isn't what you want to do. It's what you can't not do.

-- Zach Pogrob (maybe misattributed, still a great quote).

Today, I ripped 16 miles through a downpour in Manhattan. It was chaos in the most beautiful way. On the first half, running down Bowery and 5th Ave, I saw one other human running. One.

It's important to do things that remind you you're not normal. Waking up, and running further than you've ever ran. Reading a book for 24 hours straight. Traveling alone. Saying hi to strangers. Reinventing yourself overnight.

In a world where uniqueness is rarer than effort, your edge needs to be sharpened. Daily. It's the only way out of the bloodbath of average.

-- Zach Pogrob

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice."

-- Charles Bukowski

That's the thing everyone forgets about dragons. They aren't monsters, or gods. They are just alive -- like us. And if I were chained in a basement for a thousand years, all I'd want -- is to be free.

-- Qwydion, bad-ass Qunari mage, Dragon Age: Absolution

Don't feel sad if someone ignores or rejects you. People usually ignore expensive things they can't afford.

-- your ego

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

-- Charles Darwin

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

-- Viktor E. Frankl

Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming an overnight success.

-- Naval Ravikant

Fight for what matters to you, no matter what. Because even if you fall short, what better way is there to live?
It's easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too, and there'll be days where you feel all alone, and that's when *hope* is needed most.

Keep it alive. No matter how buried it gets, or lost you feel, you must promise me that you will hold on to *hope* and keep it alive. We have to be greater than what we suffer. My wish for you, is to become *hope*. People need that. And even if we fail, what better way is there to live?

-- Gwen Stacy, The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

My 2022 resolution is to stop wondering if I'm good enough for other people and start wondering if they're good enough for me.

-- Unknown IG Person

There's not always a light at the end of the tunnel but if you stay in darkness long enough, your eyes will begin to adjust.

-- David Goggins

Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusion to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world, to cloak our harsh reality in escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other. So we can avoid truth.

-- Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot

In suffering you meet Y O U R S E L F. Don't avoid it.
Learn from it.

-- Tom Bilyeu

I'm responsible for everything in my life. Everything.

-- Tom Bilyeu

'What you run from only stays with you longer. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there'.

-- Chuck Palahniuk

Find some real motherf*ckers. The world is full of rad-ass people. If you think the world is full of fake people, that says more about you than anyone else.

Take the lead. Be rad. Attract the same.

-- Tom Bilyeu

The Universe only gives us what we think we're *worthy* of receiving.

-- Joe Dispenza

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

-- Old story about The King, discovered by reading Ryan Holiday

When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.

-- Anthony Douglas Williams


Today, I’m not what I think I am. I’m not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

-- Charles Cooley


Everything about your life is a choice, everything that you see in your life from your job to your bank account to your spouse to your loneliness to your happiness to all of it. Everything is the result of the choices that you've made. Everything is either a result of what you've choosen to accept or choosen to change so the question that you're going to answer with your life is whether you're somebody who just takes it or whether you're somebody who takes it and does something with it. -- Tom Bilyeu


Even if it's rain - it's your fault
-- Brian Rose, London Real

Your life is 100% exactly a reflection of the choices you made
-- Tom Bilyeu

Everything in life is on you
-- Gary Vaynerchuk


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