Proverbs
Below is a collection of thoughts, ideas, sayings and such that i’ve enjoyed pondering over the years. Hopefully they can offer some value to you as well.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees the shade of which they know they will never sit it. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end.”
- Greek Proverb / After Life show
“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
“What was the biggest lie you were told?
It’s not that simple…
It’s a lie they tell you over and over and over again, it’s how they get you to give up. If you just do they thing they told you, you can’t, it’s done.
And you realize it is that simple.
and it always was.”
“If you're going to try, go all the way… It will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
"In truth we are responsible to all for all. It's only that humankind doesn't know it. If we knew it, the world would be paradise at once."
“I do wanna make everything good but… I also just want to make it, you know?”
“The good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way… The Kingdom of God is within man - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.”
“Happiness is amazing. It's so amazing it doesn't matter if it's yours or not.”
“Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason.”
“Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status.”
- Naval Ravikant
“Everything worth having requires sacrifice”
- Lex Fridman
“One person can change the world. That person can be you.”
- Lex Fridman
“I need nothing from you but I want everything in the world for you and I’m here to help.”
- Uknown
“Don’t tell me the sky is limit while there are footprints on the moon.”
- Unknown
“Only those who are willing to risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- ET. the Hiphop Preacher
“A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought, they must be earned.”
- Naval Ravikant
“The wound is the place light enters you.”
- Unknown
“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as allowed"
- H. G. Wells
"We can easily forgive a child afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
- Plato
“Are you like a crazy person? - Evey
I’m quite sure some will say so. - V”
“All that matters and all that ever matters is right now. The mindset and decisions we make about how to spend this present moment.”
- Unknown
“I started to believe, that the proper route forward for the redemption of the individual and for mankind as a whole is as a consequence of the redemption of each individual. That occurs as a consequences of adherence to the truth and courage in the face of being. To do more than your best. Your best isn’t enough. Because your best isn’t as good as you can be. You have to push past that. And that’s where you find what you need it life. The meaning that sustains you in life and the patterns of action that redeem the world both at the same time. You decide to believe. It’s a risk. An act of faith. You believe that the truth can set you free. You believe people have an intrinsic divinity about their soul. You decide to let everything about you that isn’t worthy of that goal die. That might be almost everything that you are. Thats a terrible thing to contemplate. The only that that is worse is the alternative. The alternative is the hells we produce around us with particular expertise during the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. It would be a good thing if we decide collectively and individually to not go back there again.”
“A true thing, poorly expressed is a lie”
“The World is the Story.”
"All the benefits in life come from compound interest - relationships, money, habits - anything of importance."
- Naval Ravikant
“I was made to be tested and twisted
I was made to be broken and beat…
I have stood in the flames that cremated my brain
And I didn't once flinch or shake
So cower at the man I've become
When I sing from the top of my lungs
That I won't retire I'll stand in your fire
Inspire the weak to be strong"
“Play long term games with long term people.”
- Naval Ravikant
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
- Bertrand Russell
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly”
“Do not go gentle into that good night… Rage, Rage, against the dying of the light.”
“If I quit now, I will soon be back where I started, and when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am.”
- Unknown
“I don’t care about the outcome if we both jump in the deep”
- Far Out
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
- Archimedes
“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”
- Unknown
“Water created man to carry itself uphill.”
- Unknown
“If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a moon.”
- Krafft Ehricke
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden within you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Rabindranath Tagore
“Aim for good and pray for happiness”
- Jordan B. Peterson
"I could write my magnum opus or I could simply go to bed"
“Education is not the filling of buckets but the lighting of flames”
- Unknown
“I’m taking a break from my mental health to focus on my work"
- Unknown