Quotes

Lines I keep coming back to.

To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— E.E. Cummings
Life is a storm. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.
— Mark Twain
We'd worry a lot less about what other people think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
— David Foster Wallace
If you don't know it's not shameful. But if you don't know, and you pretend you know, it is very shameful.
— Jack Ma
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
— Charlie Munger
Life will have terrible blows in it, horrible blows, unfair blows. It doesn't matter. And some people recover and others don't. And there I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every missed chance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every missed chance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and that your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in constructive fashion. That is a very good idea.
— Charlie Munger
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations