I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things. - Jordan Peterson
A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control. - Jordan Peterson
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. - Les Brown
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. - Socrates
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. - Socrates
Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. - Bruce Lee
Become personally involved with your dream and make it a priority, or it will never become a reality. - Bob Proctor
Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets fairly close to paranoia, and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity. Self-pity will not improve the situation. - Charlie Munger
Just because you like it does not mean that the world will necessarily give it to you. - Charlie Munger
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. - John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. - John F. Kennedy
